Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7

Name

Thermoproteus tenax Zillig et al. 1982

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	Thermoproteus Zillig et al. 1982

Type Strain

representative organism

Kra1^T (=ATCC 35583 =JCM 9277 =DSM 2078)

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 Thermoproteales Zillig et al. 1982 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997
family Thermoproteaceae Zillig et al. 1982 emend. Burggraf et al. 1997
genus Thermoproteus Zillig et al. 1982
species Thermoproteus tenax Zillig et al. 1982

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 Thermoproteus tenax Zillig et al. 1982. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 4, 2021.

References

Zillig W, Stetter KO, Schäfer W, Janekovic D, Wunderl S, Holz J, Palm P. Thermoproteales: a novel type of extremely thermoacidophilic anaerobic archaebacteria isolated from Icelandic solfataras. Zentralbl Bakteriol Orig A 1981; 2:205-227.