Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.482

Name

Petrotoga mexicana Miranda-Tello et al. 2004

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Petrotoga Davey et al. 1993

Type Strain

representative organism

MET12^T (=CIP 107371 =DSM 14811)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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
species Petrotoga mexicana Miranda-Tello et al. 2004

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 species Petrotoga mexicana Miranda-Tello et al. 2004. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.482.

Source File

10.1601/tx.482.xml

References

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].