Archaea

domain of prokaryotic microorganisms
Taxon taxon Q10872
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Archaea

Summary

Archaea is a taxon[1]. Archaea ranks in the top 0.094% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,979 views/month, #184 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Archaea is credited with the discovery of Carl Woese[3].
  • Archaea is credited with the discovery of George E. Fox[4].
  • Archaea's image is recorded as Archaea.png[5].
  • Archaea's instance of is recorded as taxon[6].
  • Archaea's taxon rank is recorded as domain[7].
  • Archaea's taxon rank is recorded as superkingdom[8].
  • Archaea's parent taxon is recorded as Biota[9].
  • Archaea's taxon name is recorded as Archaea[10].
  • Archaea's GND ID is recorded as 4002825-2[11].
  • Archaea's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh86006229[12].
  • Archaea's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12349885c[13].
  • Archaea's subclass of is recorded as microorganism[14].
  • Archaea's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 001145941[15].
  • Archaea's Commons category is recorded as Archaea[16].
  • Archaea's taxonomic type is recorded as Methanobacterium[17].
  • Archaea's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D001105[18].
  • Archaea's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 51062[19].
  • Archaea's start time is recorded as -3500000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[20].
  • Archaea's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0n61[21].
  • Archaea's MeSH tree code is recorded as B02[22].
  • Archaea's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 2157[23].
  • Archaea's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph1001642[24].
  • Archaea's ITIS TSN is recorded as 935939[25].
  • Archaea's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7920[26].
  • Archaea's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2[27].

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Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Carl Woese[3], a microbiologist[28], 1928–2012[29], of United States[30], awarded the MacArthur Fellows Program[31], specialised in microbiology[32] and George E. Fox[4], an astrobiologist[33], b. 1945[34], of United States[35], specialised in biology[36].

Why It Matters

Archaea ranks in the top 0.094% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,979 views/month, #184 of 195,241).[2] Archaea has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] Archaea is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Library of Congress Control Number. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxonomic type Methanobacterium
    Code of nomenclature International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes
    Instance of taxon
    Start time -3500000000-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1748]]: C61092"
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