Sulfolobaceae

Sulfolobaceae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Crenarchaeota
Phylum:	Crenarchaeota
Class:	Thermoprotei
Order:	Sulfolobales
Family:	Sulfolobaceae Stetter, 1989
Genera
Acidianus Segerer et al. 1986 emend. Plumb et al. 2007 Metallosphaera Huber et al. 1989 Stygiolobus Segerer et al. 1991 Sulfolobus Brock et al. 1972 Sulfurisphaera Kurosawa et al. 1998 Sulfurococcus Golovacheva et al. 1995

In taxonomy, the Sulfolobaceae are a family of the Sulfolobales.

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 111 by The All-Species Living Tree Project

?Sulfurococcus S. mirabilis ♦ Golovacheva et al. 1995 (type sp.) S. yellowstonensis ♦ Karavaiko et al. 1995 Acidianus ?A. convivator ♠ Haering et al. 2004 ?A. hospitalis ♠ Bettstetter et al. 2003 ?A. manzaensis ♠ Yoshida et al. 2006 ?A. pozzuoliensis ♠ Vestergaard et al. 2005 ?A. tengchongensis ♠ He et al. 2004 A. sulfidivorans Plumb et al. 2007 A. ambivalens (Zillig and Böck 1987) Fuchs et al. 1996 A. infernus Segerer et al. 1986 (type sp.) Acidianus brierleyi (Zillig et al. 1980) Segerer et al. 1986 Metallosphaera ?M. yellowstonensis ♠ Kozubal et al. 2011 M. cuprina Liu et al. 2011 M. hakonensis (Takayanagi et al. 1996) Kurosawa et al. 2003 M. prunae Fuchs et al. 1996 M. sedula Huber et al. 1989 (type sp.) Sulfolobus ?S. beitou ♠ Hung 2007 ?S. islandicus ♠ Zillig et al. 1994 ?S. neozealandicus ♠ Arnold et al. 2000 ?S. tengchongensis ♠ Xiang et al. 2003 ?S. thuringiensis ♠ Fuchs et al. 1996 ?S. vallisabyssus ♠ Hung 2007 S. shibatae Grogan et al. 1991 S. solfataricus Zillig et al. 1980 S. metallicus Huber and Stetter 1992 S. acidocaldarius Brock et al. 1972 (type sp.) Stygiolobus azoricus Segerer et al. 1991 S. tokodaii Suzuki et al. 2002 S. yangmingensis Jan et al. 1999 Sulfurisphaera ohwakuensis Kurosawa et al. 1998

Notes:
♠ Strain found at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) but not listed in the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)
♦ Type strain lost or not available

Further reading

Databases

• PubMed references for Sulfolobaceae
• PubMed Central references for Sulfolobaceae
• Google Scholar references for Sulfolobaceae

External links

• NCBI taxonomy page for Sulfolobaceae
• Search Tree of Life taxonomy pages for Sulfolobaceae
• Search Species2000 page for Sulfolobaceae
• MicrobeWiki page for Sulfolobaceae
• LSPN page for Sulfolobaceae