Phylum

See also the Division section for links to images and details of genera, or see • Aquifex • Thermotoga • Green nonsulfur • Deinococcus • Bacteroides-Flavobacteria • Planctomyces
• Gram-positive • Chlamydia • Cyanobacteria • Spirochetes • Green sulfur • Proteobacteria
• green filamentous • prochlorophytes • purple sulfur • purple nonsulfur

The Phylum is the division below Kingdoms.
Within the Archaea are:
Phylum Crenarchaeota
Phylum Euryarchaeota (Woese, Kandler & Wheelis, 1990)
Phylum Nanoarchaeota Huber et al., 2002

Within the Eubacteria
Domain Bacteria (Haeckel, 1894) Woese, Kandler & Wheelis, 1990 is divided into:
Phylum Gemmatimonadetes Zhang et al., 2003
Phylum Aquificae Reysenbach, 2002 ………. Aquifex
Phylum Thermotogae L. Margulis & K.V. Schwartz, 1998 ………. Thermotoga
Phylum Thermodesulfobacteria
Phylum "Deinococcus-Thermus" ………. Deinococcus
Phylum Chrysiogenetes
Phylum Chloroflexi Garrity & Holt, 2001:427
Phylum Nitrospirae
Phylum Deferribacteres
Phylum Cyanobacteria Stanier, 1973 ………. Cyanobacteria ………. Cyanobacteria companion site
Phylum Chlorobi ………. Green sulfur
Phylum Proteobacteria Stackebrandt et al., 1986 ………. Proteobacteria ... incl. purple
Phylum Firmicutes (Gibbons & Murray, 1978)
Phylum Actinobacteria Margulis, 1974
Phylum Planctomycetes ………. Planctomyces
Phylum Chlamydiae ………. Chlamydia
Phylum Spirochaetes ………. Spirochetes
Phylum Fibrobacteres
Phylum Acidobacteria
Phylum Bacteroidetes
Phylum Fusobacteria
Phylum Verrucomicrobia
Phylum Dictyoglomi