Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.51

Name

Thermodiscus Stetter 2003

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	Desulfurococcaceae Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997

Members

species	Thermodiscus maritimus Stetter 2003

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 Crenarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2021
class Thermoprotei Reysenbach 2002
order Desulfurococcales Huber and Stetter 2002
family Desulfurococcaceae Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997
genus Thermodiscus Stetter 2003

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 Thermodiscus Stetter 2003. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.51.

Source File

10.1601/tx.51.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 6, 2010.

References

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].
Stetter KO. Genus VII. Thermodiscus gen. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 189-190.