Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Thermococcus peptonophilus

Name: Thermococcus peptonophilus González et al. 1996

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pep.to.no.phi.lus. Gr. masc. adj. peptos, cooked; N.L. masc. adj. suff. -philus, friend, loving; from Gr. masc. adj. philos, on; N.L. masc. adj. peptonophilus, peptone-loving, indicating that it grows only on peptides as a carbon source

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 700098; CIP 104782; DSM 10343; JCM 9653; Strain OG-1

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16S rRNA gene: AB055125 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Gonzalez JM, Kato C, Horikoshi K. Thermococcus peptonophilus sp. nov., a fast-growing, extremely thermophilic archaebacterium isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Arch Microbiol 1995; 164:159-164.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 57. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:625-626.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Thermococcus Zillig 1983

Assigned by: Gonzalez JM, Kato C, Horikoshi K. Thermococcus peptonophilus sp. nov., a fast-growing, extremely thermophilic archaebacterium isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Arch Microbiol 1995; 164:159-164.

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