Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.20

Name

Vulcanisaeta Itoh et al. 2002

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	Vulcanisaeta distributa Itoh et al. 2002
species	Vulcanisaeta souniana Itoh et al. 2002
species	Vulcanisaeta thermophila Yim et al. 2015

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 Vulcanisaeta Itoh et al. 2002

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 Vulcanisaeta Itoh et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.20.

Source File

10.1601/tx.20.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 4, 2014.

References

Yim KJ, Cha I-T, Rhee J-K, Song HS, Hyun D-W, Lee H-W, Kim D, Kim K-N, Nam Y-D, Seo M-J, Bae J-W, Roh SW. Vulcanisaeta thermophila sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic and acidophilic crenarchaeon isolated from solfataric soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:201-205. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.065862-0 [PubMed].
Itoh T, Suzuki K, Nakase T. Vulcanisaeta distributa gen. nov., sp. nov., and Vulcanisaeta souniana sp. nov., novel hyperthermophilic, rod-shaped crenarchaeotes isolated from hot springs in Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1097-1104. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02152-0 [PubMed].