Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.27677

Name

Sulfolobus tengchongensis Xiang et al. 2003

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	Sulfolobus Brock et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

RT8-4^T (=CGMCC AS 1.3345)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Sulfolobales Stetter 1989
family Sulfolobaceae Stetter 1989
genus Sulfolobus Brock et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Sulfolobus tengchongensis Xiang et al. 2003

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 Sulfolobus tengchongensis Xiang et al. 2003. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.27677.

Source File

10.1601/tx.27677.xml

References

Xiang X, Dong X, Huang L. Sulfolobus tengchongensis sp. nov., a novel thermoacidophilic archaeon isolated from a hot spring in Tengchong, China. Extremophiles 2003; 7:493-498. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-003-0355-2 [PubMed].