Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.87

Name

Sulfurococcus Golovacheva 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	Sulfolobaceae Stetter 1989

Members

species	Sulfurococcus mirabilis Golovacheva et al. 1995
species	Sulfurococcus yellowstonensis corrig. Karavaiko et al. 1995

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 Sulfolobales Stetter 1989
family Sulfolobaceae Stetter 1989
genus Sulfurococcus Golovacheva 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 Sulfurococcus Golovacheva et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.87.

Source File

10.1601/tx.87.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 20, 2009.

References

Golovacheva RS, Val'ekho-Roman KM, Troitskii AV. Sulfurococcus mirabilis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new thermophilic archaebacterium with the ability to oxidize sulfur. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 1985; 56:100-107.
Karavaiko GI, Golyshina OV, Troitskii AV, Valieho-Roman KM, Golovacheva RS, Pivovarova TA. Sulfurococcus yellowstonii sp. nov., a new species of iron- and sulfur-oxidizing thermoacidophilic archaebacteria. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 1994; 63:668-682. [PubMed].