Bacteria
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion, “small staff”).
Proper noun
Bacteria
- (in the three-domain system) A taxonomic domain comprising the single kingdom also called Bacteria, containing about 25 phyla.
- (in the two-empire or two-superkingdom systems) A taxonomic kingdom within the superkingdom Prokaryota – single-cell organisms (the bacteria); once divided into the Archaebacteria and Eubacteria.[1]
Synonyms
- (kingdom): Eubacteria
Hyponyms
- (kingdom): Negibacteria, Posibacteria - subkingdoms
- Acidobacteriota (syn. Acidobacteria), Armatimonadota (syn. Aquificae), Armatimonadetes, Bacteroidetes, Caldiserica, Chlamydiae, Chlorobi, Chrysiogenetes, Cyanobacteria, Deferribacteres, Deinococcus-Thermus, Dictyoglomi, Elusimicrobia, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Nitrospira, Planctomycetes, Pseudomonadota (syn. Proteobacteria), Spirochaetae, Synergistetes, Thermodesulfobacteria, Thermotogae', Verrucomicrobia - phyla in Negibacteria
- Actinomycetota (syn. Actinobacteria), Chloroflexota (syn. Chloroflexi), Bacillota (syn.. Firmicutes), Tenericutes - phyla in Posibacteria[1]
Derived terms
References
Bacteria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Bacteria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Bacteria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Bacteria at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
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