Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6

Name

Thermoproteus Zillig et al. 1982

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	Thermoproteaceae Zillig et al. 1982 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997

Members

species	Thermoproteus tenax Zillig et al. 1982
species	Thermoproteus neutrophilus Zillig 1989
species	Thermoproteus thermophilus Yim et al. 2015
species	Thermoproteus uzoniensis Bonch-Osmolovskaya et al. 1990

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 Thermoproteales Zillig et al. 1982 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997
family Thermoproteaceae Zillig et al. 1982 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997
genus Thermoproteus Zillig et al. 1982

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 Thermoproteus Zillig et al. 1982. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 11, 2015.

References

Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Miroshnichenko ML, Kostrikina NA, Chernych NA, Zavarzin GA. Thermoproteus uzoniensis sp. nov., a new extremely thermophilic archaebacterium from Kamachatka continental hot springs. Arch Microbiol 1990; 154:556-559.
Zillig W, Stetter KO, Schäfer W, Janekovic D, Wunderl S, Holz J, Palm P. Thermoproteales: a novel type of extremely thermoacidophilic anaerobic archaebacteria isolated from Icelandic solfataras. Zentralbl Bakteriol Orig A 1981; 2:205-227.
Yim KJ, Song HS, Choi J-S, Roh SW. Thermoproteus thermophilus sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon isolated from solfataric soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2507-2510. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000293 [PubMed].
Zillig W. Genus I. Thermoproteus Zillig and Stetter 1982, 267VP, effective publication in Zillig and Stetter in Zillig et al. 1981, 255. In: Holt JG (ed), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, First Edition, Volume 3, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1989, p. 2241.