Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Thermococcus guaymasensis

Name: Thermococcus guaymasensis Canganella et al. 1998

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: gua.y.mas.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. guaymasensis, pertaining to the Guaymas Basin, the name of the deep-sea site where the species was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 11113; JCM 10136; TYS

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16S rRNA gene: Y08385 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Canganella F, Jones WJ, Gambacorta A, Antranikian G. Thermococcus guaymasensis sp. nov. and Thermococcus aggregans sp. nov., two novel thermophilic archaea isolated from the Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent site. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1181-1185.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:5-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Thermococcus Zillig 1983

Assigned by: Canganella F, Jones WJ, Gambacorta A, Antranikian G. Thermococcus guaymasensis sp. nov. and Thermococcus aggregans sp. nov., two novel thermophilic archaea isolated from the Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent site. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1181-1185.

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Record number: 782563
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