Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.31574

Name

Saccharolobus Sakai and Kurosawa 2018

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	Sulfolobaceae Stetter 1989

Members

species	Saccharolobus solfataricus (Zillig et al. 1980) Sakai and Kurosawa 2018
species	Saccharolobus caldissimus Sakai and Kurosawa 2018
species	Saccharolobus shibatae (Grogan et al. 1991) Sakai and Kurosawa 2018

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 Sulfolobales Stetter 1989
family Sulfolobaceae Stetter 1989
genus Saccharolobus Sakai and Kurosawa 2018

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 Saccharolobus Sakai and Kurosawa 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.31574.

Source File

10.1601/tx.31574.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 18, 2018.

References

Sakai HD, Kurosawa N. Saccharolobus caldissimus gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic iron-reducing hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from an acidic terrestrial hot spring, and reclassification of Sulfolobus solfataricus as Saccharolobus solfataricus comb. nov. and Sulfolobus shibatae as Saccharolobus shibatae comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1271-1278. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002665 [PubMed].