Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.466

Name

Thermotoga petrophila Takahata et al. 2001

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	Thermotoga Huber et al. 1986 emend. Bhandari and Gupta 2014

Type Strain

representative organism

RKU-1^T (=DSM 13995 =JCM 10881)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Thermotogota corrig. Reysenbach 2021
class Thermotogae Reysenbach 2002 emend. Bhandari and Gupta 2014 non Thermotogae Reysenbach 2021
order Thermotogales Reysenbach 2002 emend. Bhandari and Gupta 2014
family Thermotogaceae Reysenbach 2002 emend. Bhandari and Gupta 2014
genus Thermotoga Huber et al. 1986 emend. Bhandari and Gupta 2014
species Thermotoga petrophila Takahata et al. 2001

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.39966	TFO

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Thermotoga petrophila Takahata et al. 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.466.

Source File

10.1601/tx.466.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 14, 2021.

References

Takahata Y, Nishijima M, Hoaki T, Maruyama T. Thermotoga petrophila sp. nov. and Thermotoga naphthophila sp. nov., two hyperthermophilic bacteria from the Kubiki oil reservoir in Niigata, Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1901-1909. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-51-5-1901 [PubMed].