Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.85

Name

Sulfurisphaera Kurosawa et al. 1998 emend. Tsuboi et al. 2018

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	Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis Kurosawa et al. 1998 emend. Tsuboi et al. 2018
species	Sulfurisphaera javensis Tsuboi et al. 2018
species	Sulfurisphaera tokodaii (Suzuki et al. 2002) Tsuboi et al. 2018

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 Sulfurisphaera Kurosawa et al. 1998 emend. Tsuboi et al. 2018

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 Sulfurisphaera Kurosawa et al. 1998 emend. Tsuboi et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.85.

Source File

10.1601/tx.85.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 17, 2018.

References

Kurosawa N, Itoh YH, Iwai T, Sugai A, Uda I, Kimura N, Horiuchi T, Itoh T. Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic acidophile of the order Sulfolobales. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:451-456. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-2-451 [PubMed].
Tsuboi K, Sakai HD, Nur N, Stedman KM, Kurosawa N, Suwanto A. Sulfurisphaera javensis sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic and acidophilic archaeon isolated from Indonesian hot spring, and reclassification of Sulfolobus tokodaii Suzuki et al. 2002 as Sulfurisphaera tokodaii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1907-1913. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002765 [PubMed].