Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.32

Name

Desulfurococcus Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Perevalova et al. 2005

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	Desulfurococcaceae Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997

Members

species	Desulfurococcus mucosus Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Perevalova et al. 2016
species	Desulfurococcus amylolyticus Bonch-Osmolovskaya et al. 2001 emend. Perevalova et al. 2016
species	Desulfurococcus fermentans Perevalova et al. 2005
species	Desulfurococcus kamchatkensis Kublanov et al. 2009
species	Desulfurococcus mobilis Zillig et al. 1983

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 Desulfurococcales Huber and Stetter 2002
family Desulfurococcaceae Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997
genus Desulfurococcus Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Perevalova et al. 2005

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 Desulfurococcus Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Perevalova et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.32.

Source File

10.1601/tx.32.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 24, 2009.

References

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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].
Zillig W, Stetter KO, Prangishvilli D, Schäfer W, Wunderl S, Janekovic D, Holz I, Palm P. Desulfurococcaceae, the second family of the extremely thermophilic, anaerobic, sulfur-respiring Thermoproteales. Zentralbl Bakteriol Orig A 1982; 3:304-317.
Kublanov V, Bidjieva SKh, Mardanov AV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Desulfurococcus kamchatkensis sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic protein-degrading archaeon isolated from a Kamchatka hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1743-1747. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.006726-0 [PubMed].
Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Slesarev AI, Miroshnichenko ML, Svetlichnaya TP, Alekseev VA. Characteristics of Desulfurococcus amylolyticus n. sp. - a new extremely thermophilic archaebacterium isolated from thermal springs of Kamchatka and Kunashir Island. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 1988; 57:78-84.