Living Beings / Classification

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Life → Domain → Kingdom → Phylum → Class → Order → Family → Genus → Species. Explore the principal ranks; intermediate clades remain in Advanced classification.

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NCBI Taxonomy · November 5, 2026. Missing ranks leave empty columns. Animalia is the recorded synonym of Metazoa; green plants use Viridiplantae. Full source ancestry is available in Advanced classification.

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Pyrococcus furiosus

Species

Pyrococcus furiosus profile ↗

  1. LifeLife
  2. DomainArchaea
  3. KingdomMethanobacteriati
  4. PhylumMethanobacteriota
  5. ClassThermococci
  6. OrderThermococcales
  7. FamilyThermococcaceae
  8. GenusPyrococcus
  9. SpeciesPyrococcus furiosus
Advanced classification

Complete source lineage, including intermediate ranks. The standard view uses Life and the eight principal ranks.

  1. cellular organisms cellular root
  2. Archaea domain
  3. Methanobacteriati kingdom
  4. Methanobacteriota phylum
  5. Thermococci class
  6. Thermococcales order
  7. Thermococcaceae family
  8. Pyrococcus genus
  9. Pyrococcus furiosus species

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