Bacterial taxonomy Bacterial taxonomy Bacterial taxonomy is the taxonomy, i.e. the rank-based classification, of bacteria. In the scientific classification established by Carl Linnaeus, each species has to be assigned to a genus (binary nomenclature), which in turn is a lower level of a hierarchy of ranks (family, suborder, order, subclass, class, division/phyla, kingdom and domain). In the currently accepted classification of life, there are three domains (Eukaryotes, Bacteria and Archaea), which, in terms of taxonomy, despite following the same principles have several different conventions between them and between their subdivisions as are studied by different disciplines (botany, zoology, mycology and microbiology), for
Samuel Linnaeus succeeded his father (died 1748) as a priest in Stenbrohult. He has published about beekeeping. Samuel Linnaeus Samuel Linnaeus, born in 1718 in , died in 1797, he was Carl Linnaeus' younger brother. Linnaeus became a student at the University of Lund in 1738, but moved in 1742 to Uppsala, where his brother Carl year before had become a professor. Samuel researched in the Palmskiöldska collection. The following year he moved back to Lund, where he was November 30, 1743 and December 10, 1744 PhD at Sven Lagerbring on the topographic dissertation De Wexionia ("If Vaxjo"), which contains a detailed