Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.518

Name

Thermaceae da Costa and Rainey 2002

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Thermales Rainey and da Costa 2002

Members

genus	Thermus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nobre et al. 1996
genus	Allomeiothermus Jiao et al. 2022
genus	Calidithermus Raposo et al. 2019
genus	Marinithermus Sako et al. 2003
genus	Meiothermus Nobre et al. 1996 emend. Jiao et al. 2022
genus	Oceanithermus Miroshnichenko et al. 2003 emend. Mori et al. 2004
genus	Rhabdothermus Steinsbu et al. 2011
genus	Vulcanithermus Miroshnichenko et al. 2003

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Thermales Rainey and da Costa 2002
family Thermaceae da Costa and Rainey 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 family Thermaceae da Costa and Rainey 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.518.

Source File

10.1601/tx.518.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 18, 2022.

References

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