Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.364

Name

Picrophilaceae Schleper et al. 1996

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	Thermoplasmatales Reysenbach 2002

Members

genus	Picrophilus Schleper et al. 1996

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 Thermoplasmatota Rinke et al. 2019
class Thermoplasmata Reysenbach 2002
order Thermoplasmatales Reysenbach 2002
family Picrophilaceae Schleper et al. 1996

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 Picrophilaceae Schleper et al. 1996. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.364.

Source File

10.1601/tx.364.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 3, 2018.

References

Schleper C, Pühler G, Klenk HP, Zillig W. Picrophilus oshimae and Picrophilus torridus fam. nov., gen. nov., sp. nov., two species of hyperacidophilic, thermophilic, heterotrophic, aerobic archaea. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:814-816. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-46-3-814.
Reysenbach A-L, Zillig W. Family II. Picrophilaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 339.