Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.25

Name

Thermofilum pendens Zillig et al. 1983

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

Type Strain

representative organism

Hrk 5^T (=Hvv3 =DSM 2475)

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 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
species Thermofilum pendens Zillig et al. 1983

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 Thermofilum pendens Zillig et al. 1983. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.25.

Source File

10.1601/tx.25.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 6, 2010.

References

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.