Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.14941

Name

Kosmotoga DiPippo et al. 2009 emend. Nunoura et al. 2010

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	Kosmotogaceae Bhandari and Gupta 2014

Members

species	Kosmotoga olearia DiPippo et al. 2009
species	Kosmotoga arenicorallina Nunoura et al. 2011
species	Kosmotoga pacifica L'Haridon et al. 2016
species	Kosmotoga shengliensis (Feng et al. 2010) Nunoura et al. 2013

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Thermotogota corrig. Reysenbach 2021
class Thermotogae Reysenbach 2002 emend. Bhandari and Gupta 2014 non Thermotogae Reysenbach 2021
order Kosmotogales Bhandari and Gupta 2014
family Kosmotogaceae Bhandari and Gupta 2014
genus Kosmotoga DiPippo et al. 2009 emend. Nunoura et al. 2010

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 Kosmotoga DiPippo et al. 2009 emend. Nunoura et al. 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.14941.

Source File

10.1601/tx.14941.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 17, 2016.

References

Bhandari V, Gupta RS. Molecular signatures for the phylum (class) Thermotogae and a proposal for its division into three orders (Thermotogales, Kosmotogales ord. nov. and Petrotogales ord. nov.) containing four families (Thermotogaceae, Fervidobacteriaceae fam. nov., Kosmotogaceae fam. nov. and Petrotogaceae fam. nov.) and a new genus Pseudothermotoga gen. nov. with five new combinations. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:143-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-013-0062-7 [PubMed].
L'Haridon S, Jiang L, Alain K, Chalopin M, Rouxel O, Beauverger M, Xu H, Shao Z, Jebbar M. Kosmotoga pacifica sp. nov., a thermophilic chemoorganoheterotrophic bacterium isolated from an East Pacific hydrothermal sediment. Extremophiles 2014; 18:81-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-013-0596-7 [PubMed].
Nunoura T, Hirai M, Imachi H, Miyazaki M, Makita H, Hirayama H, Furushima Y, Yamamoto H, Takai K. Kosmotoga arenicorallina sp. nov. a thermophilic and obligately anaerobic heterotroph isolated from a shallow hydrothermal system occurring within a coral reef, southern part of the Yaeyama Archipelago, Japan, reclassification of Thermococcoides shengliensis as Kosmotoga shengliensis comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Kosmotoga. Arch Microbiol 2010; 192:811-819. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-010-0611-7 [PubMed].
DiPippo JL, Nesbø CL, Dahle H, Doolittle WF, Birkland N-K, Noll KM. Kosmotoga olearia gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic heterotroph isolated from an oil production fluid. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2991-3000. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.008045-0 [PubMed].