Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.533

Name

Meiothermus Nobre et al. 1996 emend. Jiao et al. 2022

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	Thermaceae da Costa and Rainey 2002

Members

species	Meiothermus ruber (Loginova et al. 1984) Nobre et al. 1996 emend. García-López et al. 2019
species	Meiothermus cateniformans Zhang et al. 2010
species	Meiothermus cerbereus Chung et al. 1997
species	Meiothermus chliarophilus (Tenreiro et al. 1995) Nobre et al. 1996
species	Meiothermus granaticius Albuquerque et al. 2010
species	Meiothermus hypogaeus Mori et al. 2012
species	Meiothermus luteus Habib et al. 2017
species	Meiothermus roseus Ming et al. 2016
species	Meiothermus rufus Albuquerque et al. 2010 emend. García-López et al. 2019
species	Meiothermus silvanus (Tenreiro et al. 1995) Nobre et al. 1996
species	Meiothermus taiwanensis Chen et al. 2002 emend. Jiao et al. 2022
species	Meiothermus terrae Yu et al. 2014
species	Meiothermus timidus Pires et al. 2005

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 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
genus Meiothermus Nobre et al. 1996 emend. Jiao et al. 2022

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 Meiothermus Nobre et al. 1996 emend. Jiao et al. 2022. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.533.

Source File

10.1601/tx.533.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 18, 2022.

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