Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Thermococcus thioreducens

Name: Thermococcus thioreducens Pikuta et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: thi.o.re.du.cens. Gr. neut. n. theîon, sulfur (Latin transliteration thium); L. pres. part. reducens, reducing; N.L. part. adj. thioreducens, reducing sulfur

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-394; DSM 14981; JCM 12859; OGL-20P

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF394925 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Pikuta EV, Marsic D, Itoh T, Bej AK, Tang J, Whitman WB, Ng JD, Garriott OK, Hoover RB. Thermococcus thioreducens sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic, obligately sulfur-reducing archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1612-1618.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2189-2190.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Thermococcus Zillig 1983

Assigned by: Pikuta EV, Marsic D, Itoh T, Bej AK, Tang J, Whitman WB, Ng JD, Garriott OK, Hoover RB. Thermococcus thioreducens sp. nov., a novel hyperthermophilic, obligately sulfur-reducing archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1612-1618.

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Record number: 782574
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