Thermoplasmata

Thermoplasmata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Euryarchaeota
Phylum:	Euryarchaeota
Class:	Thermoplasmata Reysenbach 2002
Order
Methanomassiliicoccales Iino et al. 2013 Methanomassiliicoccaceae Iino et al. 2013 Thermoplasmatales Reysenbach 2002 Thermogymnomonas Itoh et al. 2007 Ferroplasmaceae Golyshina et al. 2000 Picrophilaceae Schleper et al. 1996 Thermoplasmataceae Reysenbach 2002

In taxonomy, the Thermoplasmata are a class of the Euryarchaeota.

All are acidophiles, growing optimally at pH below 2. Picrophilus is currently the most acidophilic of all known organisms growing at a minimum pH of 0.06. Many of these organisms do not contain a cell wall, although this is not true in the case of Picrophilus. Most members of Thermotoplasmata are thermophilic.

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 121 by 'The All-Species Living Tree' Project.

Methanomassiliicoccales	Candidatus Methanogranum caenicola Iino et al. 2013 Candidatus Methanomethylophilus alvus Borrel et al. 2012 Candidatus Methanoplasma termitum Lang et al. 2015 Methanomassiliicoccus Ca. M. intestinalis Borrel et al. 2013 M. luminyensis Dridi et al. 2012
Thermoplasmatales	Thermogymnomonas acidicola Itoh et al. 2007 Thermoplasma T. acidophilum Darland et al. 1970 (type sp.) T. volcanium Segerer et al. 1988 Picrophilus P. oshimae Schleper et al. 1996 (type sp.) P. torridus Zillig et al. 1996 Ferroplasmaceae Acidiplasma A. aeolicum Golyshina et al. 2009 (type sp.) A. cupricumulans (Hawkes et al. 2008) Golyshina et al. 2009 Ferroplasma ?F. acidarmanus ♠ Dopson et al. 2004 ?F. thermophilum ♠ Zhou et al. 2008 F. acidiphilum Golyshina et al. 2000 (type sp.)

Notes:
♠ Strains found at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) but not listed in the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature LPSN

Further reading

Scientific databases

• PubMed references for Thermoplasmata
• PubMed Central references for Thermoplasmata
• Google Scholar references for Thermoplasmata

External links

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