Selected Taxon
Thermus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nobre et al. 1996
The lineage is ordered from the selected organism upward toward higher-level taxonomy.
Level 1:
Thermaceae
(family)
Level 2:
Thermales
(order)
Level 3:
"Hadobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1992 emend. Cavalier-Smith 1998
(class)
Level 4:
'Deinococcus-Thermus'
(phylum)
Level 5:
Bacteria
(superkingdom)
Level 6:
biota
(no rank)
Level 7:
all
(no rank)