Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.372

Name

Thermococcales Zillig et al. 1988

Taxonomic Rank

order

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
class	Thermococci Zillig and Reysenbach 2002

Members

family	Thermococcaceae Zillig et al. 1988

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this order within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
class Thermococci Zillig and Reysenbach 2002
order Thermococcales Zillig et al. 1988

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 order Thermococcales Zillig et al. 1988. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.372.

Source File

10.1601/tx.372.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 5, 2016.

References

Zillig W, Reysenbach AL. Class V. Thermococci class. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 341.
Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-1-7 [PubMed].
Zillig W, Holz I, Klenk HP, Trent J, Wunderl S, Janekovic D, Insel E, Haas B. Pyrococcus woesei, sp. nov., an ultra-thermophilic marine archaebacterium, representing a novel order, Thermococcales. Syst Appl Microbiol 1987; 9:62-70. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(87)80057-7.