Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.510

Name

Deinococcus geothermalis Ferreira et al. 1997

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	Deinococcus Brooks and Murray 1981 emend. Rainey et al. 1997

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 11300^T (=AG-3a)

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 Deinococcus-Thermus (sic) Weisburg et al. 2021
class Deinococci Garrity and Holt 2002
order Deinococcales Rainey et al. 1997
family Deinococcaceae Brooks and Murray 1981 emend. Rainey et al. 1997
genus Deinococcus Brooks and Murray 1981 emend. Rainey et al. 1997
species Deinococcus geothermalis Ferreira 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 species Deinococcus geothermalis Ferreira et al. 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.510.

Source File

10.1601/tx.510.xml

References

Ferreira AC, Nobre MF, Rainey FA, Silva MT, Wait R, Burghardt J, Chung AP, da Costa MS. Deinococcus geothermalis sp. nov. and Deinococcus murrayi sp. nov., two extremely radiation-resistant and slightly thermophilic species from hot springs. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:939-947. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-4-939 [PubMed].