Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Thermococcus cleftensis

Name: Thermococcus cleftensis Hensley et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cleft.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. cleftensis, referring to the Cleft segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CL1; DSM 27260; KACC 17922

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16S rRNA gene: AF350369 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Hensley SA, Jung JH, Park CS, Holden JF. Thermococcus paralvinellae sp. nov. and Thermococcus cleftensis sp. nov. of hyperthermophilic heterotrophs from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3655-3659.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:323-324.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Thermococcus Zillig 1983

Assigned by: Hensley SA, Jung JH, Park CS, Holden JF. Thermococcus paralvinellae sp. nov. and Thermococcus cleftensis sp. nov. of hyperthermophilic heterotrophs from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3655-3659.

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Record number: 792309
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