Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.75

Names

Acidianus (sic) Segerer et al. 1986 emend. Plumb et al. 2007, Acidijanus corrig. Segerer et al. 1986 emend. Plumb et al. 2007

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Sulfolobaceae Stetter 1989

Members

species	Acidianus infernus Segerer et al. 1986
species	Acidianus ambivalens (Zillig et al. 1987) Fuchs et al. 1996
species	Acidianus brierleyi (Zillig et al. 1980) Segerer et al. 1986
species	Acidianus copahuensis Giaveno et al. 2013
species	Acidianus manzaensis Yoshida et al. 2006
species	Acidianus sulfidivorans Plumb et al. 2007
species	Acidianus tengchongensis He et al. 2004
species	Acidianus sp. None 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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 Acidianus (sic) Segerer et al. 1986 emend. Plumb et al. 2007

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 Acidianus (sic) Segerer et al. 1986 emend. Plumb et al. 2007 and Acidijanus corrig. Segerer et al. 1986 emend. Plumb et al. 2007. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.75.

Source File

10.1601/tx.75.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 2, 2018.

References

Fuchs T, Huber H, Burggraf S, Stetter KO. 16S rDNA-based phylogeny of the archeal order Sulfolobus and reclassification of Desulfurolobus ambivalens as Acidianus ambivalens comb. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 1996; 19:56-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(96)80009-9.
He Z-G, Zhong H, Li Y. Acidianus tengchongensis sp. nov., a new species of acidothermophilic archaeon isolated from an acidothermal spring. Curr Microbiol 2004; 48:159–163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-003-4155-9 [PubMed].
Yoshida N, Nakasato M, Ohmura N, Ando A, Saiki H, Ishii M, Igarashi Y. Acidianus manzaensis sp. nov., a novel thermoacidophilic archaeon growing autotrophically by the oxidation of H2 with the reduction of Fe3+. Curr Microbiol 2006; 53:406–411. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-006-0151-1 [PubMed].
Giaveno MA, Urbieta MS, Ulloa JR, Toril EG, Donati ER. Physiologic versatility and growth flexibility as the main characteristics of a novel thermoacidophilic Acidianus strain isolated from Copahue geothermal area in Argentina. Microb Ecol 2013; 65:336-346. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-012-0129-4 [PubMed].
Segerer A, Neuner A, Kristjansson JK, Stetter KO. Acidianus infernus gen. nov., sp. nov., and Acidianus brierleyi comb. nov.: facultatively aerobic, extremely acidophilic thermophilic sulfur-metabolizing archaebacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1986; 36:559-564. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-36-4-559.
Plumb JJ, Haddad CM, Gibson JAE, Franzmann PD. Acidianus sulfidivorans sp. nov., an extremely acidophilic, thermophilic archaeon isolated from a solfatara on Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea, and emendation of the genus description. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1418-1423. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64846-0 [PubMed].
No reference is available 2015