Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.72

Name

Sulfolobus solfataricus Zillig et al. 1980

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	Sulfolobus Brock et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

P1^T (=ATCC 35091 =DSM 1616)

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 Sulfolobales Stetter 1989
family Sulfolobaceae Stetter 1989
genus Sulfolobus Brock et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Sulfolobus solfataricus Zillig et al. 1980

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.16509	P2 (=DSM 1617 =ATCC 35092)
10.1601/ex.16508	98/2

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Sulfolobus solfataricus Zillig et al. 1980. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.72.

Source File

10.1601/tx.72.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 12, 2018.

References

Zillig W, Stetter KO, Wunderl S, Schulz W, Priess H, Scholz I. The Sulfolobus Caldariella group: taxonomy on the basis of the structure of DNA-dependent RNA polymerases. Arch Microbiol 1980; 125:259-269.