Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.25062

Name

Petrotogaceae Bhandari and Gupta 2014

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Petrotogales Bhandari and Gupta 2014

Members

genus	Petrotoga Davey et al. 1993
genus	Defluviitoga Hania et al. 2012
genus	Geotoga Davey et al. 1993
genus	Marinitoga Wery et al. 2001
genus	Oceanotoga Jayasinghearachchi and Lal 2011
genus	Tepiditoga Mori et al. 2021

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Petrotogales Bhandari and Gupta 2014
family Petrotogaceae Bhandari and Gupta 2014

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 family Petrotogaceae Bhandari and Gupta 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.25062.

Source File

10.1601/tx.25062.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 28, 2020.

References

Mori K, Sakurai K, Hosoyama A, Kakegawa T, Hanada S. Vestiges of Adaptation to the Mesophilic Environment in the Genome of Tepiditoga spiralis gen. nov., sp. nov. Microbes Environ. 2020; 35:. https://doi.org/10.1264/jsme2.ME20046 [PubMed].
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].