Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.520

Name

Thermus aquaticus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019

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	Thermus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nobre et al. 1996

Type Strain

representative organism

YT-1^T (=NCIB 11243 =LMG 8924 =ATCC 25104 =JCM 10724 =DSM 625 =NCAIM B.01703)

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 Thermales Rainey and da Costa 2002
family Thermaceae da Costa and Rainey 2002
genus Thermus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nobre et al. 1996
species Thermus aquaticus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019

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.16515	Y5.1MC23

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Thermus aquaticus Brock and Freeze 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.520.

Source File

10.1601/tx.520.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 17, 2020.

References

Brock TD, Freeze H. Thermus aquaticus gen. n. and sp. n., a nonsporulating extreme thermophile. J Bacteriol 1969; 98:289-297. [PubMed].