Name: Staphylothermus hellenicus Arab et al. 2000

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hel.le’ni.cus. Gr. masc. adj. hellênikos; N.L. masc. adj. hellenicus, Greek, pertaining to Greece, from where the organism was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 12710; JCM 10830; P8

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ012645 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Arab H, Volker H, Thomm M. Thermococcus aegaeicus sp. nov. and Staphylothermus hellenicus sp. nov., two novel hyperthermophilic archaea isolated from geothermally heated vents off Palaeochori Bay, Milos, Greece. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:2101-2108.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:267-268.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.29764 (N = 3).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Staphylothermus Stetter and Fiala 1986

Assigned by: Arab H, Volker H, Thomm M. Thermococcus aegaeicus sp. nov. and Staphylothermus hellenicus sp. nov., two novel hyperthermophilic archaea isolated from geothermally heated vents off Palaeochori Bay, Milos, Greece. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:2101-2108.

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Record number: 781230