Ignicoccus

Ignicoccus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Desulfurococcales
Prokaryota Superregnum: Archaea Regnum: Archaea Group: TACK group Phylum: Crenarchaeota Classis: Thermoprotei Ordo: Desulfurococcales

Familia: Desulfurococcaceae
Genus: Ignicoccus
Species: Ignicoccus hospitalis – Ignicoccus islandicus – Ignicoccus pacificus

Name

Ignicoccus Huber, Burggraf & Stetter, in Huber et al., 2000.

Type species: Ignicoccus islandicus Huber, Burggraf, Mayer & Stetter, in Huber et al., 2000, by original designation.

References

• Huber H., Burggraf S., Mayer, T., Wyschkony, I., Rachel, R. & Stetter K.O. 2000. Ignicoccus gen. nov., a novel genus of hyperthermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic Archaea, represented by two new species, Ignicoccus islandicus sp. nov. and Ignicoccus pacificus sp. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 50: 2093–2100. DOI: 10.1099/00207713-50-6-2093 Reference page. 

Links

• Ignicoccus – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• European Nucleotide Archive