Deinococcota

Deinococcota
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Thermotogati
Phylum: Deinococcota
Weisburg et al. 2021
Class: Deinococci
Garrity and Holt 2002
Orders & families
Synonyms
  • "Deinobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2006
  • "Deinococcobacteria" Margulis & Schwartz 1998
  • "Deinococcaeota" Oren et al. 2015
  • "Deinococcota" Whitman et al. 2018
  • "Deinococcus–Thermus" Weisburg et al. 1989
  • "Hadobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2006
  • "Xenobacteria"

Deinococcota (synonym, "Deinococcus-Thermus") is a phylum of bacteria with a single class, Deinococci (from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós), meaning "terrible", and κόκκος (kókkos), meaning "berry"), that are highly resistant to environmental hazards, also known as extremophiles.

These bacteria have thick cell walls that give them gram-positive stains, but they include a second membrane and so are closer in structure to those of gram-negative bacteria.

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