Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.519
Name
 Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nobre et al. 1996
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
da Costa and Rainey 2002
Members
Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019
Yu et al. 2015 emend. García-López et al. 2019
Chung et al. 2000
Zhang et al. 2010
Hu et al. 2022
Williams et al. 1995
Khan et al. 2017
Li et al. 2021
Ming et al. 2014
Tenreiro et al. 1995
Vajna et al. 2012
Hudson et al. 1987 emend. García-López et al. 2019
Chung et al. 2000 emend. García-López et al. 2019
Bjornsdottir et al. 2009
Williams et al. 1996 emend. García-López et al. 2019
Kobayashi et al. 1995
(ex Loginova and Egorova 1975) Loginova et al. 1984
Kristjansson et al. 1994
Zhou et al. 2021
Tenreiro et al. 1995
Yu et al. 2013
Zhou et al. 2019
Ming et al. 2020
(ex Oshima and Imahori 1974) Manaia et al. 1995 emend. García-López et al. 2019
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Weisburg et al. 2021
  Garrity and Holt 2002
  Rainey and da Costa 2002
  da Costa and Rainey 2002
  Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nobre et al. 1996

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 Thermus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nobre et al. 1996. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.519.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on March 2, 2022.

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