Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.410

Name

Ferroglobus Hafenbradl et al. 1997

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	Archaeoglobaceae Huber and Stetter 2002

Members

species	Ferroglobus placidus Hafenbradl et al. 1997

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 Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
class Archaeoglobi Garrity and Holt 2002
order Archaeoglobales Huber and Stetter 2002
family Archaeoglobaceae Huber and Stetter 2002
genus Ferroglobus Hafenbradl 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 genus Ferroglobus Hafenbradl et al. 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.410.

Source File

10.1601/tx.410.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 14, 2009.

References

Huber H, Stetter KO. Family I. Archaeoglobaceae fam. nov. Stetter 1989, 2216. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 349.
Hafenbradl D, Keller M, Dirmeier R, Rachel R, Roßnagel P, Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO. Ferroglobus placidus gen. nov., sp. nov., A novel hyperthermophilic archaeum that oxidizes Fe2+ at neutral pH under anoxic conditions. Arch Microbiol 1996; 166:308-314. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050388 [PubMed].