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Outline of life forms

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A life form or lifeform is an entity or being that is living.

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Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described. More recently, in May 2016, scientists reported that 1 trillion species are estimated to be on Earth currently with only one-thousandth of one percent described.

More than 99% of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct.

Archaea

  • Archaea
  • Crenarchaeota
  • Desulfurococcales - an order of the Thermoprotei
  • Euryarchaeota
  • halobacteriales - in taxonomy, the Halobacteriales are an order of the Halobacteria, found in water saturated or nearly saturated with salt.
  • Halophiles
  • Korarchaeota
  • Korarchaeum cryptofilum - These archaea have only been found in high temperature hydrothermal environments, particularly hot springs
  • Lokiarchaeota
  • Methanobacteriales - information including symptoms, causes, diseases, symptoms, treatments, and other medical and health issues.
  • Methanococcales aka Methanocaldococcus jannaschii - a genus of coccoid methanogens of the family Methanococcacea
  • Methanogens
  • Methanosarcinales - In taxonomy, the Methanosarcinales are an order of the Methanomicrobia
  • Methanopyrales - In taxonomy, the Methanopyrales are an order of the methanopyri.
  • Nanoarchaeota
  • Psychrophiles - (sigh-crow-files)
  • sulfobales - grow in terrestrial volcanic hot springs with optimum growth occurring
  • Thaumarchaeota - a phylum of the Archaea proposed in 2008 after the genome of Cenarchaeum symbiosum
  • thermophilic - (A thermophile is an organism)
  • thermoplasmales - An order of aerobic, thermophilic archaea, in the kingdom

    • Bacteria

  • Bacteria
  • Gram positive no outer membrane
  • Actinobacteria (high-G+C)
  • Firmicutes (low-G+C)
  • Tenericutes (no wall)
  • Gram negative outer membrane present
  • Aquificae
  • Deinococcus-Thermus
  • Fibrobacteres/Chlorobi/Bacteroidetes (FCB group)
  • Frateuria aurantia (a species of Proteobacteria)
  • Fusobacteria
  • Gemmatimonadetes
  • Nitrospirae
  • Planctomycetes/Verrucomicrobia/Chlamydiae (PVC group)
  • Proteobacteria
  • Spirochaetes
  • Synergistetes
  • Unknown / ungrouped
  • Acidobacteria
  • Chloroflexi
  • Chrysiogenetes
  • Cyanobacteria
  • Deferribacteres
  • Dictyoglomi
  • Thermodesulfobacteria
  • Thermotogae

    • Eukaryote

    Organisms whose cells contain complex structures enclosed within membranes

  • Eukaryote
  • Unikonta
  • Opisthokonta
  • Metazoa (animals)
  • Subkingdom Parazoa
  • Porifera
  • Placozoa
  • Subkingdom Eumetazoa
  • Radiata (unranked)
  • Ctenophora
  • Cnidaria
  • Bilateria (unranked)
  • Orthonectida
  • Rhombozoa
  • Acoelomorpha
  • Chaetognatha
  • Superphylum Deuterostomia
  • Chordata
  • Hemichordata
  • Echinodermata
  • Xenoturbellida
  • Vetulicolia †
  • Protostomia (unranked)
  • Superphylum Ecdysozoa
  • Kinorhyncha
  • Loricifera
  • Priapulida
  • Nematoda
  • Nematomorpha
  • Lobopodia
  • Onychophora
  • Tardigrada
  • Arthropoda
  • Superphylum Platyzoa
  • Platyhelminthes
  • Gastrotricha
  • Rotifera
  • Acanthocephala
  • Gnathostomulida
  • Micrognathozoa
  • Cycliophora
  • Superphylum Lophotrochozoa
  • Sipuncula
  • Hyolitha †
  • Nemertea
  • Phoronida
  • Bryozoa
  • Entoprocta
  • Brachiopoda
  • Mollusca
  • Annelida
  • Echiura
  • Mesomycetozoa
  • Choanozoa
  • Eumycota (fungi)
  • Blastocladiomycota
  • Chytridiomycota
  • Glomeromycota
  • Microsporidia
  • Neocallimastigomycota
  • Dikarya (inc. Deuteromycota)
  • Ascomycota
  • Pezizomycotina
  • Saccharomycotina
  • Taphrinomycotina
  • Basidiomycota
  • Agaricomycotina
  • Pucciniomycotina
  • Ustilaginomycotina
  • Subphyla incertae sedis
  • Entomophthoromycotina
  • Kickxellomycotina
  • Mucoromycotina
  • Zoopagomycotina
  • Amoebozoa
  • Conosa
  • Mycetozoa (slime-molds)
  • Archamoebae
  • Lobosa
  • Protamoebae
  • Bikonta
  • Apusozoa
  • Rhizaria
  • Excavata
  • Archaeplastida (plants, broadly defined)
  • Glaucophyta – glaucophytes
  • Rhodophyceae – red algae
  • Chloroplastida
  • Chlorophyta– green algae (part)
  • Ulvophyceae
  • Trebouxiophyceae
  • Chlorophyceae
  • Chlorodendrales – green algae (part)
  • Prasinophytae – green algae (part)
  • Mesostigma
  • Charophyta sensu lato – green algae (part) and land plants
  • Streptophytina – stoneworts and land plants
  • Charales – stoneworts
  • Plantae – land plants (embryophytes)
  • Chromalveolata

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