Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.79

Name

Metallosphaera Huber et al. 1989

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	Metallosphaera sedula Huber et al. 1989
species	Metallosphaera cuprina Liu et al. 2011
species	Metallosphaera hakonensis (Takayanagi et al. 1996) Kurosawa et al. 2003
species	Metallosphaera prunae Fuchs et al. 1996
species	Metallosphaera tengchongensis Peng et al. 2015
species	Metallosphaera 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 Metallosphaera Huber et al. 1989

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 Metallosphaera Huber et al. 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.79.

Source File

10.1601/tx.79.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 26, 2014.

References

Peng T-J, Liu L-J, Liu C, Yang Z-F, Liu S-J, Jiang C-Y. Metallosphaera tengchongensis sp. nov., an acidothermophilic archaeon isolated from a hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:537-542. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.070870-0 [PubMed].
Huber G, Spinnler C, Gambacorta A, Stetter KO. Metallosphaera sedula gen. and sp. nov. represents a new genus of aerobic, metal-mobilizing, thermoacetophilic archaebacteria. Syst Appl Microbiol 1989; 12:38-47.
Kurosawa N, Itoh YH, Itoh T. Reclassification of Sulfolobus hakonensis Takayanagi et al. 1996 as Metallosphaera hakonensis comb. nov. based on phylogenetic evidence and DNA G+C content. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1607-1608. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02716-0 [PubMed].
Liu L-J, You X-Y, Guo X, Liu S-J, Jiang C-Y. Metallosphaera cuprina sp. nov., an acidothermophilic, metal-mobilizing archaeon. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2395-2400. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.026591-0 [PubMed].
No reference is available 2015
Fuchs T, Huber H, Teiner K, Burggraf S, Stetter KO. Metallosphaera prunae sp. nov., a novel metal-mobilizing, thermoacidophilic Archaeum, isolated from a uranium-mine in Germany. Syst Appl Microbiol 1995; 18:560-566.