Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.12

Name

Pyrobaculum Huber et al. 1988 emend. Chan et al. 2013

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Thermoproteaceae Zillig et al. 1982 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997

Members

species	Pyrobaculum islandicum Huber et al. 1988
species	Pyrobaculum aerophilum Völkl et al. 1996
species	Pyrobaculum arsenaticum Huber et al. 2001
species	Pyrobaculum calidifontis Amo et al. 2008
species	Pyrobaculum ferrireducens Slobodkina et al. 2015
species	Pyrobaculum igneiluti Lee et al. 2017
species	Pyrobaculum neutrophilum (Zillig 1989) Chan et al. 2013
species	Pyrobaculum oguniense Sako et al. 2001
species	Pyrobaculum organotrophum Huber et al. 1988

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Crenarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2021
class Thermoprotei Reysenbach 2002
order Thermoproteales Zillig et al. 1982 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997
family Thermoproteaceae Zillig et al. 1982 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997
genus Pyrobaculum Huber et al. 1988 emend. Chan et al. 2013

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Pyrobaculum Huber et al. 1988 emend. Chan et al. 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.12.

Source File

10.1601/tx.12.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 5, 2017.

References

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Völkl P, Huber R, Drobner E, Rachel R, Burggraf S, Trincone A, Stetter KO. Pyrobaculum aerophilum sp. nov., a novel nitrate-reducing hyperthermophilic archaeum. Appl Environ Microbiol 1993; 59:2918-2926. [PubMed].