Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.396
Name
 Takai et al. 2000
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
Takai et al. 2000
Amend et al. 2006
Zeng et al. 2013
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
  Takai et al. 2000

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 Palaeococcus Takai et al. 2000. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.396.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on June 14, 2013.

References

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  2. Amend JP, Meyer-Dombard DR, Sheth SN, Zolotova N, Amend AC. Palaeococcus helgesonii sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a geothermal well on Vulcano Island, Italy. Arch Microbiol 2003; 179:394-401. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-003-0542-7 [PubMed].
  3. Takai K, Sugai A, Itoh T, Horikoshi K. Palaeococcus ferrophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a barophilic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:489-500. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-2-489 [PubMed].