Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.480

Name

Petrotoga Davey et al. 1993

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	Petrotogaceae Bhandari and Gupta 2014

Members

species	Petrotoga miotherma Davey et al. 1993
species	Petrotoga halophila Miranda-Tello et al. 2007
species	Petrotoga japonica Purwasena et al. 2014
species	Petrotoga mexicana Miranda-Tello et al. 2004
species	Petrotoga mobilis Lien et al. 1998
species	Petrotoga olearia L'Haridon et al. 2002
species	Petrotoga sibirica L'Haridon et al. 2002

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Thermotogota corrig. Reysenbach 2021
class Thermotogae Reysenbach 2002 emend. Bhandari and Gupta 2014 non Thermotogae Reysenbach 2021
order Petrotogales Bhandari and Gupta 2014
family Petrotogaceae Bhandari and Gupta 2014
genus Petrotoga Davey et al. 1993

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 Petrotoga Davey et al. 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.480.

Source File

10.1601/tx.480.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 19, 2015.

References

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Purwasena IA, Sugaim Y, Sasaki K. Petrotoga japonica sp. nov., a thermophilic, fermentative bacterium isolated from Yabase Oilfield in Japan. Arch Microbiol 2014; 196:313-321. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-014-0972-4 [PubMed].
Bhandari V, Gupta RS. Molecular signatures for the phylum (class) Thermotogae and a proposal for its division into three orders (Thermotogales, Kosmotogales ord. nov. and Petrotogales ord. nov.) containing four families (Thermotogaceae, Fervidobacteriaceae fam. nov., Kosmotogaceae fam. nov. and Petrotogaceae fam. nov.) and a new genus Pseudothermotoga gen. nov. with five new combinations. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:143-168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-013-0062-7 [PubMed].
Lien T, Madsen M, Rainey FA, Birkeland NK. Petrotoga mobilis sp. nov., from a North Sea oil-production well. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1007-1013. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-3-1007 [PubMed].
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Miranda-Tello E, Fardeau ML, Thomas P, Ramirez F, Casalot L, Cayol JL, Garcia JL, Ollivier B. Petrotoga mexicana sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, anaerobic and xylanolytic bacterium isolated from an oil-producing well in the Gulf of Mexico. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:169-174. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02702-0 [PubMed].
Davey ME, Wood WA, Key R, Nakamura K, Stahl D. Isolation of three species of Geotoga and Petrotoga: two new genera, representing an new lineage in the bacterial line of descent distantly related to the Thermotogales. Syst Appl Microbiol 1993; 16:191-200.