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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Saccharolobus solfataricus

Name: Saccharolobus solfataricus (Zillig et al. 1980) Sakai and Kurosawa 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Sulfolobus solfataricus Zillig et al. 1980

Etymology: sol.fa.ta’ri.cus. N.L. masc. adj. solfataricus, pertaining to solfatara, living in solfatara habitats

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 35091; DSM 1616; IFO 15331; JCM 8930; NBRC 15331; P1

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: D26490 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

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: 798629
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