Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.412

Name

Geoglobus Kashefi et al. 2002

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Archaeoglobaceae Huber and Stetter 2002

Members

species	Geoglobus ahangari Kashefi et al. 2002
species	Geoglobus acetivorans Slobodkina et al. 2009

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
class Archaeoglobi Garrity and Holt 2002
order Archaeoglobales Huber and Stetter 2002
family Archaeoglobaceae Huber and Stetter 2002
genus Geoglobus Kashefi et al. 2002

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 Geoglobus Kashefi et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.412.

Source File

10.1601/tx.412.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 4, 2009.

References

Huber H, Stetter KO. Family I. Archaeoglobaceae fam. nov. Stetter 1989, 2216. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 349.
Kashefi K, Tor JM, Holmes DE, Gaw Van Praagh CV, Reysenbach AL, Lovley DR. Geoglobus ahangari gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic archaeon capable of oxidizing organic acids and growing autotrophically on hydrogen with Fe(III) serving as the sole electron acceptor. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:719-728. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.01953-0 [PubMed].
Slobodkina GB, Kolganova TV, Querellou J, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slobodkin AI. Geoglobus acetivorans sp. nov., an iron(III)-reducing archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2880-2883. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.011080-0 [PubMed].