Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.508

Name

Deinococcus radiodurans (Raj et al. 1960) Brooks and Murray 1981

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	Deinococcus Brooks and Murray 1981 emend. Rainey et al. 1997

Type Strain

representative organism

R1^T (=VKM B-1422 =ATCC 13939 =CIP 104750 =NCIB 9279 =UWO 288 =IFO 15346 =LMG 4051 =DSM 20539 =CCUG 27074 =CCM 1700 =HAMBI 1924 =UWO 1083 =JCM 16871)

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 Deinococcus-Thermus (sic) Weisburg et al. 2021
class Deinococci Garrity and Holt 2002
order Deinococcales Rainey et al. 1997
family Deinococcaceae Brooks and Murray 1981 emend. Rainey et al. 1997
genus Deinococcus Brooks and Murray 1981 emend. Rainey et al. 1997
species Deinococcus radiodurans (Raj et al. 1960) Brooks and Murray 1981

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.16044	Minton R1 USUHS (=USUHS =ATCC BAA-816)

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Deinococcus radiodurans (Raj et al. 1960) Brooks and Murray 1981. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.508.

Source File

10.1601/tx.508.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 6, 2019.

References

Brooks BW, Murray RGE. Nomenclature for "Micrococcus radiodurans" and other radiation resistant cocci: Deinococcaceae fam. nov. and Deinococcus gen. nov., including five species. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1981; 31:353-360. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-31-3-353.