Name: Saccharolobus shibatae (Grogan et al. 1991) Sakai and Kurosawa 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Sulfolobus shibatae Grogan et al. 1991

Etymology: shi.ba’tae. N.L. gen. masc. n. shibatae, of Shibata, named after Masaru Shibata who enabled us to obtain the samples from which the organism was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 51178; B 12; DSM 5389; IFO 15437; JCM 8931; NBRC 15437

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: M32504 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sakai HD, Kurosawa N. Saccharolobus caldissimus gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic iron-reducing hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from an acidic terrestrial hot spring, and reclassification of Sulfolobus solfataricus as Saccharolobus solfataricus comb. nov. and Sulfolobus shibatae as Saccharolobus shibatae comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1271-1278.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2134-2136.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Sulfolobus shibatae Grogan et al. 1991	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.

Parent taxon: Saccharolobus Sakai and Kurosawa 2018

Assigned by: Sakai HD, Kurosawa N. Saccharolobus caldissimus gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic iron-reducing hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from an acidic terrestrial hot spring, and reclassification of Sulfolobus solfataricus as Saccharolobus solfataricus comb. nov. and Sulfolobus shibatae as Saccharolobus shibatae comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1271-1278.

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Record number: 798628