Ignicoccus

Taxonavigation

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.

Links

• NCBI link: Ignicoccus
• European Nucleotide Archive