Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.24

Name

Thermofilum Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Toshchakov et al. 2015

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	Thermofilaceae Burggraf et al. 1997

Members

species	Thermofilum pendens Zillig et al. 1983
species	Thermofilum adornatum Zayulina et al. 2020
species	Thermofilum uzonense Toshchakov et al. 2016
species	Thermofilum sp. None 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 Thermofilales Zayulina et al. 2021
family Thermofilaceae Burggraf et al. 1997
genus Thermofilum Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Toshchakov et al. 2015

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 Thermofilum Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Toshchakov et al. 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.24.

Source File

10.1601/tx.24.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 13, 2020.

References

Toshchakov SV, Korzhenkov AA, Samarov NI, Mazunin IO, Mozhey OI, Shmyr IS, Derbikova KS, Taranov EA, Dominova IN, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Patrushev MV, Podosokorskaya OA, Kublanov IV. Complete genome sequence of and proposal of Thermofilum uzonense sp. nov. a novel hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon and emended description of the genus Thermofilum. Stand Genomic Sci 2015; 10:. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-015-0105-y [PubMed].
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, Kochetkova TV, Piunova UE, Ziganshin RH, Podosokorskaya OA, Kublanov IV. Novel Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon Thermofilum adornatum sp. nov. Uses GH1, GH3, and Two Novel Glycosidases for Cellulose Hydrolysis. Front. Microbio. 2019; 10:2972-2972. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02972 [PubMed].
Zillig W, Gierl A, Schreiber G, Wunderl S, Janekovic D, Stetter KO, Klenk HP. The archaebacterium Thermophilum pendens represents a novel genus of the thermophilic, anaerobic sulfur respiring Thermoproteales. Syst Appl Microbiol 1983; 4:79-87.
No reference is available 2015