Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.58

Name

Pyrodictium abyssi Pley et al. 1991

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	Pyrodictium Stetter et al. 1984

Type Strain

representative organism

AV2^T (=DSM 6158 =JCM 9394 =NBRC 100439 =ATCC 49828)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Pyrodictiaceae Burggraf et al. 1997
genus Pyrodictium Stetter et al. 1984
species Pyrodictium abyssi Pley et al. 1991

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 species Pyrodictium abyssi Pley et al. 1991. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.58.

Source File

10.1601/tx.58.xml

References

Pley U, Schipka J, Gambacorta A, Jannasch HW, Fricke H, Rachel R, Stetter KO. Pyrodictium abyssi sp. nov. represents a novel heterotrophic marine archaeal hyperthermophile growing at 110C. Syst Appl Microbiol 1991; 14:245-253.