Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.14940

Name

Thermus islandicus Bjornsdottir et al. 2009

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Thermus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nobre et al. 1996

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 21543^T (=ATCC BAA-1677 =PRI 3838)

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Deinococcus-Thermus (sic) Weisburg et al. 2021
class Deinococci Garrity and Holt 2002
order Thermales Rainey and da Costa 2002
family Thermaceae da Costa and Rainey 2002
genus Thermus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nobre et al. 1996
species Thermus islandicus Bjornsdottir et al. 2009

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 species Thermus islandicus Bjornsdottir et al. 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.14940.

Source File

10.1601/tx.14940.xml

References

Bjornsdottir SH, Petursdottir SK, Hreggvidsson GO, Skirnisdottir S, Hjorleifsdottir S, Arnfinnsson J, Kristjansson JK. Thermus islandicus sp. nov., a mixotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from the Torfajokull geothermal area. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2962-2966. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.007013-0 [PubMed].