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Aeropyrum

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Aeropyrum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Proteoarchaeota
Superphylum: TACK group
Phylum: Thermoproteota
Class: Thermoprotei
Order: Desulfurococcales
Family: Desulfurococcaceae
Genus: Aeropyrum
Sako, Nomura, Uchida, Ishida, Morii, Koga, Hoaki & Maruyama 1996
Type species
Aeropyrum pernix
Sako et al. 1996
Species

Aeropyrum is a genus of archaea in the family Desulfurococcaceae.[1]

Etymology

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The name Aeropyrum derives from:
Greek noun aer, aeros (ἀήρ, ἀέρος), air; Greek neuter gender noun pur, fire; Neo-Latin neuter gender noun Aeropyrum, air fire, referring to the hyperthermophilic respirative character of the organism.[2]

Species

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The genus contains 2 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely[2]

  • A. camini ( Nakagawa et al. 2004; Latin genitive case noun camini, of a chimney, relating to its isolation from a hydrothermal vent chimney.)[3]
  • A. pernix ( Sako et al. 1996, (Type species of the genus).; Latin neuter gender adjective pernix, nimble, active, agile, indicating high motility in microscopic inspection.) [4]

References

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  1. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Aeropyrum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. ^ a b Aeropyrum in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.
  3. ^ Nakagawa, S. (2004). "Aeropyrum camini sp. nov., a strictly aerobic, hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (2): 329–335. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02826-0. PMID 15023940.
  4. ^ Sako, Y.; Nomura, N.; Uchida, A.; Ishida, Y.; Morii, H.; Koga, Y.; Hoaki, T.; Maruyama, T. (1996). "Aeropyrum pernix gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Aerobic Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Growing at Temperatures up to 100 C". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 46 (4): 1070–1077. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-4-1070. PMID 8863437.

Further reading

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