List of Archaea genera explained
This article lists the genera of the Archaea. The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).[2] However, in the List provided below, GTDB has precedence unless otherwise noted.
Phylogeny
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy was initially used to decorate the genome tree via tax2tree. The 16S rRNA-based Greengenes taxonomy is used to supplement the taxonomy particularly in regions of the tree with no cultured representatives. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) is used as the primary taxonomic authority for establishing naming priorities. Taxonomic ranks are normalised using phylorank and the taxonomy manually curated to remove polyphyletic groups.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Cladogram was taken from the GTDB release 08-RS214 (28th April 2023).[8] [9] [10] The position of clades with a "question mark" are based on the additional phylogeny of the 16S rRNA-based LTP_12_2021 by The All-Species Living Tree Project.[11] [12] [13]
Phylum "Microcaldota"
Class "Microcaldia"
Order "Microcaldales"
- Family "Microcaldaceae" Sakai et al. 2022
- ?"Microcaldus" Sakai et al. 2022
Phylum "Undinarchaeota"
Class "Undinarchaeia"
Order "Undinarchaeales"
- Family "Naiadarchaeaceae" Dombrowski et al. 2020
- "Candidatus Naiadarchaeum" Dombrowski et al. 2020
- Family "Undinarchaeaceae" Dombrowski et al. 2020
- "Candidatus Undinarchaeum" Dombrowski et al. 2020
Phylum "Altarchaeota"
Class "Altarchaeia"
Order "Altarchaeales"
- Family "Altarchaeaceae" corrig. Probst et al. 2014
- "Candidatus Altarchaeum" corrig. Probst et al. 2014
Class "Iainarchaeia"
Order "Forterreales"
- Family "Forterreaceae" Pallen, Rodriguez-R & Alikhan 2022
- "Candidatus Forterrea" Probst & Banfield 2017
Order "Iainarchaeales"
- Family "Iainarchaeaceae" Rinke et al. 2020
- "Candidatus Iainarchaeum" Rinke et al. 2013
Class "Micrarchaeia"
Order "Norongarragalinales"
- Family "Norongarragalinaceae" Vázquez-Campos et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Norongarragalina" Vázquez-Campos et al. 2021
Order "Micrarchaeales"
- Family "Micrarchaeaceae" Vázquez-Campos et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Mancarchaeum" Golyshina et al. 2017
- "Candidatus Micrarchaeum" Baker et al. 2010
Order "Anstonellales"
- Family "Anstonellaceae" Vázquez-Campos et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Anstonella" Vázquez-Campos et al. 2021
- Family "Bilamarchaeaceae" Vázquez-Campos et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Bilamarchaeum" Vázquez-Campos et al. 2021
Order "Fermentimicrarchaeales"
- Family "Fermentimicrarchaeaceae" Kadnikov et al. 2020 (Sv326)
- "Candidatus Fermentimicrarchaeum" Kadnikov et al. 2020
Order "Burarchaeales"
- Family "Burarchaeaceae" Vázquez-Campos et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Burarchaeum" Vázquez-Campos et al. 2021
Order "Gugararchaeales"
- Family "Gugararchaeaceae" Vázquez-Campos et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Gugararchaeum" Vázquez-Campos et al. 2021
Phylum "Huberarchaeaota"
Class "Huberarchaeia"
Order "Huberarchaeales"
- Family "Huberarchaeaceae" Rinke et al. 2020
- "Candidatus Huberarchaeum" corrig. Schwank et al. 2019
Class "Aenigmatarchaeia"
Order "Aenigmatarchaeales"
- Family "Aenigmatarchaeaceae" corrig. Rinke et al. 2020
- "Candidatus Aenigmatarchaeum" corrig. Rinke et al. 2013
Class "Nanohalarchaeia"
Order "Nanohalarchaeales"
- Family "Nanohalarchaeaceae"
- ?"Candidatus Nanohalarchaeum" corrig. Hamm et al. 2019
- ?"Candidatus Nanopetraeus" corrig. Crits‐Christoph et al. 2016
Class "Nanohalobiia"
Order "Nanohalobiales"
- Family "Nanoanaerosalinaceae" Zhao et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Nanoanaerosalina" Zhao et al. 2022
- Family "Nanohalalkaliarchaeaceae" La Cono et al. 2020
- ?"Candidatus Nanohalalkaliarchaeum" Ghai et al. 2011
- Family "Nanohalobiaceae" La Cono et al. 2020
- ?"Candidatus Haloredivivus" Ghai et al. 2011
- "Candidatus Nanohalobium" La Cono et al. 2020
- "Candidatus Nanosalina" Narasingarao et al. 2012
- "Candidatus Nanosalinicola" corrig. Narasingarao et al. 2012
Class "Nanoarchaeia"
Nanoarchaeia incertae sedis
- "Mamarchaeales"
- "Pacearchaeales" (DHVE-5, DUSEL-1)
- "Wiannamattarchaeales" Vazquez-Campos et al. 2019 (LFWA-II, Eury4AB)
- "Woesearchaeales" (DHVE-6)
- "Jingweiarchaeales" Rao et al. 2023
- Family "Haiyanarchaeaceae" Rao et al. 2023
- ?"Candidatus Haiyanarchaeum" Rao et al. 2023
- Family "Jingweiarchaeaceae" Rao et al. 2023
- ?"Candidatus Jingweiarchaeum" Rao et al. 2023
Order "Nanoarchaeales"
- Family "Nanoarchaeaceae" Huber et al. 2011
- Family "Nanopusillaceae" Huber et al. 2011
- Nanobdella Kato et al. 2022
- "Candidatus Nanoclepta" St. John et al. 2019
- "Candidatus Nanopusillus" Wurch et al. 2016 ["''Candidatus'' Nanobsidianus" <small>Castelle et al. 2015</small>]
Order "Tiddalikarchaeales"
- Family "Tiddalikarchaeaceae" Vázquez-Campos et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Tiddalikarchaeum" Vázquez-Campos et al. 2021
Order "Parvarchaeales"
- Family "Parvarchaeaceae" Rinke et al. 2020
- "Candidatus Acidifodinimicrobium" Luo et al. 2020
- "Candidatus Parvarchaeum" Baker et al. 2010 (ARMAN 4 & 5)
- ?"Candidatus Rehaiarchaeum" Rao et al. 2023
Asgardaeota incertae sedis
- Class "Asgardarchaeia"
- Order "Asgardarchaeales"
- Family "Asgardarchaeaceae" Eme et al. 2023
- ?"Candidatus Asgardarchaeum" Eme et al. 2023
- Class "Balderarchaeia"
- Order "Balderarchaeales"
- Family "Balderarchaeaceae" Xie et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Balderarchaeum" Xie et al. 2022
- Class "Freyrarchaeia"
- Order "Freyrarchaeales"
- Family "Freyrarchaeaceae" Xie et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Freyrarchaeum" Xie et al. 2022[14]
- Class "Friggarchaeia"
- Class "Gefionarchaeia"
- Class "Idunnarchaeia"
- Class "Njordarchaeia"
- Order "Njordarchaeales"
- Family "Njordarchaeaceae" Xie et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Njordarchaeum" Xie et al. 2022[15] [16]
- Class "Tyrarchaeia"
- Order "Tyrarchaeales"
- Family "Tyrarchaeaceae" Xie et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Tyrarchaeum" Xie et al. 2022
Class "Sifarchaeia"
Order "Borrarchaeales"
- Family "Borrarchaeaceae" Liu et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Borrarchaeum" Liu et al. 2021
Order "Sifarchaeales"
- Family "Sifarchaeaceae" Sun et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Sifarchaeum" corrig. Farag, Zhao & Biddle 2020
Class "Wukongarchaeia"
Order "Wukongarchaeales"
- Family "Wukongarchaeaceae" Liu et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Wukongarchaeum" Liu et al. 2021
Order "Hodarchaeales"
- Family "Hodarchaeaceae" Liu et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Hodarchaeum" Liu et al. 2021
Order "Kariarchaeales"
- Family "Kariarchaeaceae" Liu et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Kariarchaeum" Liu et al. 2021
Order "Heimdallarchaeales"
- Family "Heimdallarchaeaceae" Wu et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Heimdallarchaeum" Wu et al. 2022
Class "Jordarchaeia"
Order "Jordarchaeales"
- Family "Jordarchaeaceae" Sun et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Jordarchaeum" Sun et al. 2021
Class "Baldrarchaeia"
Order "Baldrarchaeales"
- Family "Baldrarchaeaceae" corrig. Liu et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Baldrarchaeum" corrig. Liu et al. 2021
Order "Thorarchaeales"
- Family "Thorarchaeaceae" (MBG-B)
Order "Odinarchaeales"
- Family "Odinarchaeaceae" Tamarit et al. 2022
- "Candidatus Odinarchaeum" Tamarit et al. 2022
Class "Hermodarchaeia"
Order "Hermodarchaeales"
- Family "Hermodarchaeaceae" corrig. Liu et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Hermodarchaeum" corrig. Liu et al. 2021
Order "Sigynarchaeales"
- Family "Sigynarchaeaceae" Xie et al. 2022[15] [17]
- ?"Candidatus Sigynarchaeum" Xie et al. 2022
Order "Lokiarchaeales"
In GTDB as order CR-4
- Family "Lokiarchaeaceae" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016
- ?"Candidatus Lokiarchaeum" corrig. Spang et al. 2015 (MBGB, DSAG)
- Family "Prometheoarchaeaceae" Pallen, Rodriguez-R & Alikhan 2022 ("MK-D1")
- ?"Candidatus Harpocratesius" Wu et al. 2022[18]
- "Candidatus Promethearchaeum" corrig. Imachi, Nobu & Takai 2020
Thermoproteota Incertae sedis
- "Candidatus Pyrohabitans" Adam et al. 2022
- "Brockarchaeia"
Order "Korarchaeales"
- Family "Korarchaeaceae" Rinke et al. 2020
- "Candidatus Korarchaeum" Elkins et al. 2008
- "Candidatus Methanodesulfokora" McKay et al. 2019
Order "Bathyarchaeales"
- Family "Bathyarchaeaceae" Khomyakova et al. 2023
- ?"Candidatus Bathyarchaeum" Khomyakova et al. 2023
Order "Hecatellales"
- Family "Hecatellaceae" Rinke et al. 2020
- ?"Candidatus Hecatella" Adam et al. 2022
MCG6
- ?"Candidatus Termiticorpusculum" Loh, Herve & Brune 2021
- ?"Candidatus Termitimicrobium" Loh, Herve & Brune 2021
Order "Caldarchaeales"
- Family "Caldarchaeaceae" Rinke et al. 2020
- ?"Candidatus Caldarchaeum" corrig. Nunoura et al. 2011 (HWCGI)
- "Candidatus Calditenuis" corrig. Beam et al. 2016
- ?"Candidatus Pelearchaeum" Balbay et al. 2023
- Family "Wolframiiraptoraceae" Buessecker et al. 2022
- "Candidatus Benthortus" Buessecker et al. 2022
- "Candidatus Geocrenenecus" Buessecker et al. 2022
- "Candidatus Terraquivivens" Buessecker et al. 2022
- "Candidatus Wolframiiraptor" Buessecker et al. 2022
Nitrososphaeria Incertae sedis
- "Cenoporarchaeum" corrig. Zhang et al. 2019
- "Candidatus Gigantothauma" corrig. Muller et al. 2010
- "Candidatus Nitrosodeserticola" Hwang et al. 2021
Order "Geothermarchaeales"
- Family "Geothermarchaeaceae" Adam et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Geothermarchaeum" Adam et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Scotarchaeum" Adam et al. 2022
Order "Conexivisphaerales"
- Family "Conexivisphaeraceae" Kato et al. 2021 (THSC Group)
- Conexivisphaera Kato et al. 2021
- Family "Methylarchaceae" Hua et al. 2019
- ?"Candidatus Methylarchaeum" Hua et al. 2019
- ?"Candidatus Methanotowutia" Ou et al. 2022
- Family "Nitrosocaldaceae" Qin et al. 2016
- "Candidatus Nitrosocaldus" de la Torre et al. 2008
- "Candidatus Nitrosothermus" Luo et al. 2021
- Family Nitrososphaeraceae Stieglmeier et al. 2014
- "Candidatus Nitrosocosmicus" corrig. Lehtovirta-Morley et al. 2016
- "Candidatus Nitrosopolaris" Pessi, Rutanen & Hultman 2022
- Nitrososphaera Stieglmeier et al. 2014
- Family Nitrosopumilaceae Qin et al. 2017
- "Cenarchaeum" DeLong & Preston 1996
- Nitrosarchaeum corrig. Jung et al. 2018
- "Candidatus Nitrosopelagicus" Santoro et al. 2015
- Nitrosopumilus Qin et al. 2017 ["''Candidatus'' Nitrosomarinus" <small>Ahlgren et al. 2017</small>]
- ?"Candidatus Nitrosospongia" Moeller et al. 2019
- "Candidatus Nitrosotalea" Lehtovirta 2011
- "Candidatus Nitrosotenuis" Lebedeva et al. 2013
Class "Culexarchaeia"
Order "Culexarchaeles"
- Family "Culexarchaeaceae" Kohtz et al. 2022 ["Methanomediaceae" <small>Berghuis et al. 2019</small>]
- ?"Candidatus Culexarchaeum" Kohtz et al. 2022 ["''Candidatus'' Methanomedium" <small>Berghuis et al. 2019</small>]
- Family "Culexmicrobiaceae" Kohtz et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Culexmicrobium" Kohtz et al. 2022
Class "Methanomethylicia"
Methanomethylicia incertae sedis
- Order "Methanohydrogenicales"
- Family "Methanohydrogenicaceae" Berghuis et al. 2019
- ?"Candidatus Methanohydrogenicus" Berghuis et al. 2019
- Order "Methanomethylarchaeales"
- Family "Methanomethylarchaeceae" corrig. Hua et al. 2019
- ?"Candidatus Methanomethylarchaeum" corrig. Hua et al. 2019
- Order "Methanomethylovorales"
- Family "Methanomethylovoraceae" Hua et al. 2019
- ?"Candidatus Methanomethylovorus" Hua et al. 2019
Order "Nezhaarchaeales"
- Family "Methanohydrogenotrophicaceae" Hua et al. 2019
- ?"Candidatus Methanogearchaeum" corrig. Hua et al. 2019
- ?"Candidatus Methanohydrogenotrophicum" Hua et al. 2019
Order "Methanomethylicales"
- Family "Candidatus Methanomethylicaceae" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016
- "Candidatus Methanomethylicus" Vanwonterghem et al. 2016
- "Candidatus Methanosuratinicola" corrig. Vanwonterghem et al. 2016
Order Thermofilales
- Family Thermoproteaceae Zillig & Stetter 1982
- Family "Thermocladiaceae" Rinke et al. 2020 ex Chuvochina et al. 2023
Class "Sulfolobia"
- Family Desulfurococcaceae Zillig & Stetter 1983
- Family Fervidicoccaceae Perevalova et al. 2010
- Family Pyrodictiaceae Burggraf, Huber & Stetter 1997
- Family "Ignicoccaceae" Rinke et al. 2020 ex Chuvochina et al. 2023
- Family Acidilobaceae Prokofeva et al. 2009
- Family "Ignisphaeraceae" Rinke et al. 2020 ex Chuvochina et al. 2023
- Family "Zestosphaeraceae" Pallen, Rodriguez-R & Alikhan 2022
- Zestosphaera St. John et al. 2021
- Family Sulfolobaceae Stetter 1989
- Acidianus Segerer et al. 1986 ["''Sulfosphaerellus''" <small>Zhong et al. 1982</small>; ''Desulfurolobus'' <small>Zillig & Böck 1987</small>]
- "Candidatus Aramenus" Servín-Garcidueñas & Martínez-Romero 2014
- Metallosphaera Huber et al. 1989
- Saccharolobus Sakai & Kurosawa 2018
- Stygiolobus Segerer et al. 1991
- Sulfodiicoccus Sakai & Kurosawa 2017
- Sulfolobus Brock et al. 1972
- Sulfuracidifex Itoh et al. 2020
- Sulfurisphaera Kurosawa et al. 1998
- ?Sulfurococcus Golovacheva, Vale’kho & Troitskii 1995
Class "Hadarchaeia"
Order "Hadarchaeales"
- Family "Hadarchaeaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2019 ex Chuvochina et al. 2023
- "Candidatus Hadarchaeum" Chuvochina et al. 2019
- ?"Candidatus Hadesarchaeum" Hua et al. 2019
- ?"Candidatus Methanourarchaeum" Hua et al. 2019
Phylum Methanobacteriota_B
Order "Methanofastidiosales"
- Family "Methanofastidiosaceae" Rinke et al. 2020
- "Candidatus Methanofastidiosum" corrig. Nobu et al. 2016
Phylum "Hydrothermarchaeota"
Class "Hydrothermarchaeia"
Order "Hydrothermarchaeales"
- Family "Hydrothermarchaeaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2019 ex Chuvochina et al. 2023
- "Candidatus Hydrothermarchaeum" Chuvochina et al. 2019
- Family "Tepidaquicellaceae" corrig. Kadnikov et al. 2020
- ?"Candidatus Tepidaquicella" corrig. Kadnikov et al. 2020
- Family Methanothermaceae Stetter et al. 1982
- Family "Methanothermobacteraceae" Rinke et al. 2020 ex Chuvochina et al. 2023
- Family Methanobacteriaceae Barker 1956
Phylum "Thermoplasmatota"
Thermoplasmatota incertae sedis
Order "Yaplasmatales"
Class "Izemarchaea"
Order "Thermoprofundales"
Class "Poseidoniia"
Order "Poseidoniales"
- Family "Poseidoniaceae" corrig. Rinke et al. 2019
- Family "Thalassarchaeaceae" corrig. Rinke et al. 2019
- "Candidatus Thalassarchaeum" corrig. Martin-Cuadrado et al. 2015
Order "Lunaplasmatales"
- Family "Lunaplasmataceae" Zinke et al. 2021
- ?"Candidatus Lunaplasma" Zinke et al. 2021
Order "Natronoplasmatales"
- Family "Natronoplasmataceae" Pallen, Rodriguez-R & Alikhan 2022 (PWKY01)
- "Candidatus Haladaptiplasma" corrig. Zhou et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Halarchaeoplasma" Zhou et al. 2023 ["''Candidatus'' [[Haloplasma]]" Zhou et al. 2022 non Antunes et al. 2008]
- "Candidatus Natronoplasma" Zhou et al. 2022
- "Candidatus Saliniplasma" Zhou et al. 2022
Order "Proteinoplasmatales"
Order "Gimiplasmatales"
- Family "Gimiplasmataceae" Hu et al. 2020
- "Candidatus Gimiplasma" Hu et al. 2020 (UA10834)
Order "Sysuiplasmatales"
- Family "Sysuiplasmataceae" Yuan et al. 2021
- "Candidatus Sysuiplasma" Yuan et al. 2021
- Family "Methanomixtatrophicaceae" Hua et al. 2019
- ?"Candidatus Methanomixtatrophicum" Hua et al. 2019
- Family Methanomassiliicoccaceae Iino et al. 2013
- Family "Methanomethylophilaceae" Gaci et al. 2014
- "Candidatus Methanarcanum" Chibani et al. 2022
- "Candidatus Methanogranum" corrig. Iino et al. 2013
- "Candidatus Methanomethylophilus" corrig. Borrel et al. 2012
- "Candidatus Methanoplasma" corrig. Lang et al. 2015
- ?"Candidatus Methanospyradousia" Gilroy et al. 2021
Order "Aciduliprofundales"
- Family "Aciduliprofundaceae" Rinke et al. 2020
Phylum "Halobacteriota"
Halobacteriota incertae sedis
- "Candidatus Methanoinsularis" Ou et al. 2022
- "Candidatus Methanoporticola" Ou et al. 2022
Order "Methanoflorentales"
- Family "Methanoflorentaceae" Mondav et al. 2014
- "Candidatus Methanoflorens" Mondav et al. 2014
Order "Mnemosynellales"
- Family "Mnemosynellaceae" Adam et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Mnemosynella" Adam et al. 2022
- Family "Allopolytropaceae" corrig. Boyd et al. 2019
- ?"Candidatus Allopolytropus" corrig. Boyd et al. 2019 ["''Candidatus'' Polytropus" <small>Boyd et al. 2019 non Kirsch 1866</small>]
- Family Archaeoglobaceae Huber & Stetter 2002
- Archaeoglobus Stetter 1988
- Ferroglobus Hafenbradl et al. 1997
- Geoglobus Kashefi et al. 2002
- ?"Candidatus Methanoglobus" Buessecker et al. 2023
- ?"Candidatus Methanomixotrophus" corrig. Liu et al. 2021
- ?"Candidatus Methanoproducendum" Hua et al. 2019
Class "Methanoliparia"
Order "Methanoliparales"
- Family "Methanoliparaceae" Borrel et al. 2019
- "Candidatus Methanoliparum" Borrel et al. 2019
- "Candidatus Methanolliviera" Borrel et al. 2019
Class "Syntropharchaeia"
Order "Methanophagales"
- Family ?"Veteromethanophagaceae" Vulcano et al. 2022
- Family "Methanophagaceae" Chadwick et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Methanophaga" Chadwick et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Methanoalium" Chadwick et al. 2022
- Family "Methanoxibalbaceae" Laso-Pérez et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Methanoxibalbensis" Laso-Pérez et al. 2022
- ?"Candidatus Methanospirare" Laso-Pérez et al. 2022
Order "Syntropharchaeales"
- Family "Syntropharchaeaceae" corrig. (ANME-2 cluster)
- "Candidatus Syntropharchaeum" corrig. Laso-Perez et al. 2016
Class "Methanocellia"
Order Methanocellales
- Family Methanocellaceae Sakai et al. 2008
Class "Methanosarcinia"
Order Methanotrichales
- Family Methanotrichaceae Akinyemi et al. 2021
- ?"Candidatus Methanocrinis" Khomyakova et al. 2023
- Methanothrix Huser, Wuhrmann & Zehnder 1983 [''[[Methanosaeta]] Patel & Sprott 1990]
- Family "Methanocomedenaceae" Chadwick et al. 2022
- "Candidatus Methanocomedens" Chadwick et al. 2022 (ANME-2a)
- "Candidatus Methanomarinus" Chadwick et al. 2022 (ANME-2b)
- Family "Ethanoperedentaceae" (sic) Pallen, Rodriguez-R & Alikhan 2022 (EX4572-44)
- "Candidatus Ethaniperedens" corrig. Hahn et al. 2020
- Family "Methanoperedentaceae" corrig. Haroon et al. 2013
- ?"Candidatus Argarchaeum" corrig. Chen et al. 2019 (GOM arc I)
- "Candidatus Methanoperedens" Haroon et al. 2013 (ANME-2d, AAA)
- Family "Methanogastraceae" corrig. Chadwick et al. 2022 (ANME-2c)
- "Candidatus Methanogaster" Chadwick et al. 2022
- Family Methanosarcinaceae Balch & Wolfe 1981
Class Methanosarcinia A
Order Methanosarcinales_A
- Family Methermicoccaceae Cheng et al. 2007
- Methermicoccus Cheng et al. 2007
Order "Alkanophagales"
- Family "Alkanophagaceae"
- ?"Candidatus Alkanophaga" Zehnle et al. 2023
- Family Methanocorpusculaceae Zellner et al. 1989
- Family "Methanofollaceae" Chuvochina et al. 2023
- Family "Methanosphaerulaceae" Rinke et al. 2020 ex Chuvochina et al. 2023
- Family Methanospirillaceae Boone et al. 2002
- Family Methanoregulaceae Sakai et al. 2012
- Family "Methanoculleaceae" Rinke et al. 2020 ex Chuvochina et al. 2023
- Family Methanomicrobiaceae Balch & Wolfe 1981
Class "Hikarchaeia"
Order "Hikarchaeales"
- Family "Hikarchaeaceae" Martijn et al. 2020 (MG-IV)
- ?"Candidatus Hikarchaeum" Martijn et al. 2020
Class "Methanonatronarchaeia"
Order "Methanonatronarchaeales"
- Family Methanonatronarchaeaceae Sorokin et al. 2018
- "Candidatus Methanohalarchaeum" Sorokin et al. 2018
- Methanonatronarchaeum Sorokin et al. 2018
Order "Halorutilales"
- Family "Halorutilaceae" Durán-Viseras et al. 2023
- ?"Candidatus Halorutilus" Durán-Viseras et al. 2023
- Halobacteriales incertae sedis
- Family Haladaptataceae Rinke et al. 2020
- Family Halobacteriaceae
- ?"Actinoarchaeum" Tang et al. 2023
- Halanaeroarchaeum Sorokin et al. 2016
- Halarchaeum Minegishi et al. 2010
- Halobacterium (Elazari-Volcani 1940) Elazari-Volcani 1957 ["''Halobacter''" <small>Anderson 1954</small>]
- Halocalculus Minegishi et al. 2015
- Halodesulfurarchaeum Sorokin et al. 2017
- Salarchaeum Shimane et al. 2011
- Family "Salinarchaeaceae"
- Salinarchaeum Cui et al. 2014
- Family "Halostellaceae" Pallen, Rodriguez-R & Alikhan 2022
- Family "Natronoarchaeaceae" Sorokin et al. 2022
- ?"Natranaeroarchaeum" Sorokin et al. 2021
- Natronoarchaeum Shimane et al. 2010
- Family Natrialbaceae Gupta et al. 2015
- Haloarchaeobius Makhdoumi-Kakhki et al. 2012
- Halobiforma Hezayen et al. 2002
- Halopiger Gutierrez et al. 2007
- Halorubellus Cui et al. 2014
- ?Halosolutus Sun et al. 2022
- Halostagnicola Castillo et al. 2006
- Haloterrigena Ventosa et al. 1999
- Halovarius Mehrshad et al. 2015
- Halovivax Castillo et al. 2006
- Natrarchaeobaculum Sorokin et al. 2020
- Natrarchaeobius corrig. Sorokin et al. 2020
- Natrialba Kamekura & Dyall-Smith 1996
- Natribaculum Liu et al. 2015
- Natronobacterium Tindall et al. 1984
- Natronobiforma Sorokin et al. 2019
- Natronococcus Tindall et al. 1984
- Natronolimnobius Itoh et al. 2005
- Natronolimnohabitans Sorokin et al. 2020
- Natrinema McGenity et al. 1998
- ?"Natronobeatus" Li et al. 2023
- ?"Natrononativus" Li et al. 2023
- Natronorubrum Xu et al. 1999
- ?"Natronosalvus" Tan et al. 2023
- Salinadaptatus Xue et al. 2020
- ?"Salinilacihabitans" Li et al. 2023
- Saliphagus Yin et al. 2017
- Family Halococcaceae Gupta et al. 2016
- Family Haloarculaceae
- Halapricum Song et al. 2014
- Haloarcula Torreblanca et al. 1986
- Halocatena Verma et al. 2020
- ?Halococcoides Sorokin et al. 2019
- "Haloglomus" Duran-Viseras, Sanchez-Porro & Ventosa 2020
- Halomarina Inoue et al. 2011
- Halomicroarcula Echigo et al. 2013
- Halomicrobium Oren et al. 2002 [''Halosiccatus'' <small>Mehrshad et al. 2016</small>]
- Halorientalis Cui et al. 2011
- ?"Halorarius" Sun et al. 2023
- Halorhabdus Waino et al. 2000
- Halosegnis Duran-Viseras et al. 2022 [''Sala'' <small>Song et al. 2023 non Ross 1937 non Walker 1867</small>; ''Salella'' <small>Deshmukh & Oren 2023</small>]
- Halosimplex Vreeland et al. 2003
- Halovenus Makhdoumi-Kakhki et al. 2012
- Natronomonas Kamekura et al. 1997
- Salinibaculum Han & Cui 2020
- ?Salinirubellus Hou et al. 2018
- Salinirussus Cui et al. 2017
- Family "Halalkalicoccaceae"
- Family Haloferacaceae Gupta et al. 2015
- Halalkaliarchaeum Sorokin et al. 2019
- "Halalkalirubrum" Zuo et al. 2021
- ?"Candidatus Halectosymbiota" corrig. Filker et al. 2014
- "Halegenticoccus" Liu et al. 2019
- Halobaculum Oren et al. 1995 ["''Candidatus'' Halobonum" <small>Ugalde et al. 2013</small>]
- Halobellus Cui et al. 2011
- ?Halobium Mori et al. 2016
- Haloferax Torreblanca et al. 1986
- Halogeometricum Montalvo-Rodriguez et al. 1998 [''[[Halosarcina]] Savage et al. 2008]
- Halogranum Cui et al. 2010
- Halohasta Mou et al. 2013
- Halolamina Cui et al. 2011
- Halonotius Burns et al. 2010
- Haloparvum Chen et al. 2016
- Halopelagius Cui et al. 2010
- Halopenitus Amoozegar et al. 2012
- Haloplanus Elevi Bardavid et al. 2007
- Haloprofundus Zhang et al. 2017
- Haloquadratum Burns et al. 2007
- Halorubrum McGenity & Grant 1996 [''Halorubrobacterium'' <small>Kamekura & Dyall-Smith 1996</small>]
- "Natronocalculus" Sorokin et al. 2022
- Salinirubrum corrig. Cui & Qiu 2014
- Salinigranum Cui & Zhang 2014
See also
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