Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.23

Name

Thermofilaceae Burggraf et al. 1997

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Thermofilales Zayulina et al. 2021

Members

genus	Thermofilum Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Toshchakov et al. 2015
genus	Infirmifilum Zayulina et al. 2021

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Thermofilales Zayulina et al. 2021
family Thermofilaceae Burggraf et al. 1997

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 family Thermofilaceae Burggraf et al. 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.23.

Source File

10.1601/tx.23.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 16, 2021.

References

Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO. Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:657-660. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-3-657 [PubMed].
Zayulina KS, Elcheninov AG, Toshchakov SV, Kochetkova TV, Novikov AA, Blamey JM, Kublanov IV. Novel hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Infirmifilum lucidum gen. nov. sp. nov., reclassification of Thermofilum uzonense as Infirmifilum uzonense comb. nov. and assignment of the family Thermofilaceae to the order Thermofilales ord. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126230-126230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2021.126230 [PubMed].