Draft:Methanobacteriati

The kingdom (regnum in Latin) Methanobacteriati of Archaea domain was introduced in 2022 alongside with two other archaeal kingdoms Nanobdellati and Thermoproteati. All three were aimed to replace taxonomically invalid superphyla. Methanobacteriati replaced Euryarchaeota,  Nanobdellati  DPANN, and Thermoproteati TACK superphyla respectively.

Methanobacteriati contains following phyla: Methanobacteriota, Halobacteriota, and Thermoplasmatota. The type genus of the kingdom is Methanobacterium. While many lineages in the kingdom are methanogenic, there are number of taxa inside of Methanobacteriati that are non-methanogenic.