Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.11258

Name

Thermococcus thioreducens Pikuta et al. 2007

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Thermococcus Zillig et al. 1983

Type Strain

representative organism

ATCC BAA-394^T (=JCM 12859 =DSM 14981 =OGL-20P)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
class Thermococci Zillig and Reysenbach 2002
order Thermococcales Zillig et al. 1988
family Thermococcaceae Zillig et al. 1988
genus Thermococcus Zillig et al. 1983
species Thermococcus thioreducens Pikuta et al. 2007

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 species Thermococcus thioreducens Pikuta et al. 2007. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.11258.

Source File

10.1601/tx.11258.xml

References

Pikuta EV, Marsic D, Itoh T, Bej AK, Tang J, Whitman WB, Ng JD, Garriott OK, Hoover RB. Thermococcus thioreducens sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic, obligately sulfur-reducing archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1612-1618. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65057-0 [PubMed].