Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.374
Name
 Zillig et al. 1983
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Zillig et al. 1988
Members
Zillig et al. 1983
Dirmeier et al. 2001
Li et al. 2021
(sic) Arab et al. 2000
Canganella et al. 1998
Keller et al. 1997
Cambon-Bonavita et al. 2004
Marteinsson et al. 1999
Duffaud et al. 2005
Courtine et al. 2021
Kuwabara et al. 2007
Huber et al. 1996
Hensley et al. 2014
Kuwabara et al. 2005
Zhao et al. 2015
Godfroy et al. 1996
Jolivet et al. 2003
Miroshnichenko et al. 1998
Canganella et al. 1998
Alain et al. 2021
Godfroy et al. 1997
Lim et al. 2021
corrig. Atomi et al. 2005
Neuner et al. 2001
Jolivet et al. 2004
Gorlas et al. 2022
Miroshnichenko et al. 1998
Hensley et al. 2014
González et al. 1996
Dalmasso et al. 2017
Gorlas et al. 2013
Kobayashi et al. 1995 pro synon. Thermus profundus Kobayashi et al. 1995
Jolivet et al. 2004
Miroshnichenko et al. 2001
Grote et al. 2000
Miroshnichenko et al. 1990
Pikuta et al. 2007
González et al. 2001
Ronimus et al. 1999
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
  Zillig and Reysenbach 2002
  Zillig et al. 1988
  Zillig et al. 1988
  Zillig et al. 1983

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 Thermococcus Zillig et al. 1983. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.374.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on September 16, 2021.

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