Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.388

Name

Thermococcus pacificus Miroshnichenko et al. 1998

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

DSM 10394^T (=JCM 10553 =P-4)

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 pacificus Miroshnichenko et al. 1998

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 pacificus Miroshnichenko et al. 1998. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.388.

Source File

10.1601/tx.388.xml

References

Miroshnichenko ML, Gongadze GM, Rainey FA, Kostyukova AS, Lysenko AM, Chernyh NA, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Thermococcus gorgonarius sp. nov. and Thermococcus pacificus sp. nov.: heterotrophic extremely thermophilic archaea from New Zealand submarine hot vents. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:23-29. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-1-23 [PubMed].