Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4

Name

Thermoproteales Zillig et al. 1982 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997

Taxonomic Rank

order

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
class	Thermoprotei Reysenbach 2002

Members

family	Desulfurococcaceae Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997
family	Thermofilaceae Burggraf et al. 1997
family	Thermoproteaceae Zillig et al. 1982 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this order 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 Thermoproteales Zillig et al. 1982 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997

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 order Thermoproteales Zillig et al. 1982 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 1, 2017.

References

Zillig W, Stetter KO, Schäfer W, Janekovic D, Wunderl S, Holz J, Palm P. Thermoproteales: a novel type of extremely thermoacidophilic anaerobic archaebacteria isolated from Icelandic solfataras. Zentralbl Bakteriol Orig A 1981; 2:205-227.
Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO. Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:657-660. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-3-657 [PubMed].
Zillig W, Stetter KO, Prangishvilli D, Schäfer W, Wunderl S, Janekovic D, Holz I, Palm P. Desulfurococcaceae, the second family of the extremely thermophilic, anaerobic, sulfur-respiring Thermoproteales. Zentralbl Bakteriol Orig A 1982; 3:304-317.
Huber H, Stetter KO. Order I. Thermoproteales. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 170.