Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8336

Name

Rhodothermus Alfredsson et al. 1995

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	Rhodothermaceae Ludwig et al. 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019

Members

species	Rhodothermus marinus Alfredsson et al. 1995 emend. Park et al. 2019
species	Rhodothermus bifroesti Bergsten et al. 2022
species	Rhodothermus obamensis Sako et al. 1996
species	Rhodothermus profundi Marteinsson et al. 2010 emend. García-López et al. 2019

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 Rhodothermota corrig. Munoz et al. 2021
class Rhodothermia Munoz et al. 2017
order Rhodothermales Munoz et al. 2017 emend. Park et al. 2019
family Rhodothermaceae Ludwig et al. 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
genus Rhodothermus Alfredsson et al. 1995

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 Rhodothermus Alfredsson et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8336.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8336.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 3, 2022.

References

Ludwig W, Euzeby J, Whitman WB. Taxonomic outlines of the phyla Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 21-24.
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Sako Y, Takai K, Ishida Y, Uchida A, Katayama Y. Rhodothermus obamensis sp. nov., a modern lineage of extremely thermophilic marine bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:1099-1104. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-46-4-1099 [PubMed].
Marteinsson VT, Bjornsdottir SH, Bienvenu N, Kristjansson JK, Birrien J-L. Rhodothermus profundi sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the Pacific Ocean. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2729-2734. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.012724-0 [PubMed].
Bergsten P, Vannier P, Mougeolle A, Rigaud L, Marteinsson VT. Rhodothermus bifroesti sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium isolated from the basaltic subsurface of the volcanic island Surtsey. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005214 [PubMed].