Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.82

Name

Metallosphaera prunae Fuchs et al. 1996

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	Metallosphaera Huber et al. 1989

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 10039^T (=Ron 12/II)

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 Metallosphaera Huber et al. 1989
species Metallosphaera prunae Fuchs et al. 1996

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 Metallosphaera prunae Fuchs et al. 1996. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.82.

Source File

10.1601/tx.82.xml

References

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.