Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.379

Name

Thermococcus alcaliphilus Keller et al. 1997

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	Thermococcus Zillig et al. 1983

Type Strain

representative organism

AEDII12^T (=DSM 10322)

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 Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
class Thermococci Zillig and Reysenbach 2002
order Thermococcales Zillig et al. 1988
family Thermococcaceae Zillig et al. 1988
genus Thermococcus Zillig et al. 1983
species Thermococcus alcaliphilus Keller et al. 1997

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 Thermococcus alcaliphilus Keller et al. 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.379.

Source File

10.1601/tx.379.xml

References

Keller M, Braun FJ, Dirmeier R, Hafenbradl D, Burggraf S, Rachel R, Stetter KO. Thermococcus alcaliphilus sp. nov., a new hyperthermophilic archaeum growing on polysulfide at alkaline pH. Arch Microbiol 1995; 164:390-395. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02529736 [PubMed].