[living organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020] Superkingdom Prokaryota Kingdom Archaea Woese et al. 1990 see Domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990 Phylum Euryarchaeota Garrity and Holt 2001 1 Class Archaeoglobi Garrity and Holt 2002 [monotypic] 2 Class Halobacteria Grant et al. 2002 [monotypic] 3 Class Methanobacteria Boone 2002 [monotypic] 4 Class Methanococci Boone 2002 [monotypic] 5 Class "Methanomicrobia" 6 Class Methanopyri Garrity and Holt 2002 [monotypic] 7 Class "Nanohaloarchaea" 8 Class Thermococci Zillig and Reysenbach 2002 [monotypic] 9 Class Thermoplasmata Reysenbach 2002 [monotypic]