Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.62

Name

Pyrolobus Blöchl et al. 1999

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	Pyrodictiaceae Burggraf et al. 1997

Members

species	Pyrolobus fumarii Blöchl et al. 1999

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 Pyrodictiaceae Burggraf et al. 1997
genus Pyrolobus Blöchl et al. 1999

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 Pyrolobus Blöchl et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.62.

Source File

10.1601/tx.62.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 27, 2009.

References

Blöchl E, Rachel R, Burggraf S, Hafenbradl D, Jannasch HW, Stetter KO. Pyrolobus fumarii, gen. and sp. nov., represents a novel group of archaea, extending the upper temperature limit for life to 113 degrees C. Extremophiles 1997; 1:14-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s007920050010 [PubMed].