Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.413

Name

Geoglobus ahangari Kashefi et al. 2002

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	Geoglobus Kashefi et al. 2002

Type Strain

representative organism

234^T (=ATCC BAA-425)

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 Archaeoglobi Garrity and Holt 2002
order Archaeoglobales Huber and Stetter 2002
family Archaeoglobaceae Huber and Stetter 2002
genus Geoglobus Kashefi et al. 2002
species Geoglobus ahangari Kashefi et al. 2002

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 Geoglobus ahangari Kashefi et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.413.

Source File

10.1601/tx.413.xml

References

Kashefi K, Tor JM, Holmes DE, Gaw Van Praagh CV, Reysenbach AL, Lovley DR. Geoglobus ahangari gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic archaeon capable of oxidizing organic acids and growing autotrophically on hydrogen with Fe(III) serving as the sole electron acceptor. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:719-728. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.01953-0 [PubMed].