Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.44

Name

Staphylothermus Fiala et al. 1986

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	Desulfurococcaceae Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997

Members

species	Staphylothermus marinus Fiala et al. 1986
species	Staphylothermus hellenicus Arab et al. 2000

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 Crenarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2021
class Thermoprotei Reysenbach 2002
order Desulfurococcales Huber and Stetter 2002
family Desulfurococcaceae Zillig et al. 1983 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997
genus Staphylothermus Fiala et al. 1986

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 Staphylothermus Fiala et al. 1986. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.44.

Source File

10.1601/tx.44.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 21, 2009.

References

Fiala G, Stetter KO, Jannasch HW, Langworthy TA, Madon J. Staphylothermus marinus sp. nov. represents a novel genus of extremely thermophilic submarine heterotrophic archaebacteria growing up to 98C. Syst Appl Microbiol 1986; 8:106-113.
Burggraf S, Huber H, Stetter KO. Reclassification of the crenarchael orders and families in accordance with 16S rRNA sequence data. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:657-660. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-3-657 [PubMed].
Arab H, Völker H, Thomm M. Thermococcus aegaeicus sp. nov. and Staphylothermus hellenicus sp. nov., two novel hyperthermophilic archaea isolated from geothermally heated vents off Palaeochori Bay, Milos, Greece. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:2101-2108. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-6-2101 [PubMed].