Acidianus

Acidianus is a genus of archaeans in the family Sulfolobaceae.^[1]

Acidianus
Acidianus convivator cell showing extrusion of Acidianus two-tailed virus particles.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Thermoproteati
Phylum:	Thermoproteota
Class:	Thermoprotei
Order:	Sulfolobales
Family:	Sulfolobaceae
Genus:	Acidianus Segerer, Neuner, Kristjansson & Stetter 1986
Species
A. ambivalens A. brierleyi "A. convivator" "Ca. A. copahuensis" "A. hospitalis" A. infernus "A. manzaensis" "A. pozzuoliensis" A. sulfidivorans "A. tengchongenses" "A. uzoniensis"
Synonyms
"Desulfurolobus" Zillig & Bock 1987 "Sulfosphaerellus" Zhong et al. 1982

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) ^[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)^[1]

16S rRNA based LTP_06_2022[3][4][5]	53 marker proteins based GTDB 08-RS214[6][7][8]
Acidianus A. sulfidivorans A. ambivalens A. infernus	Acidianus "Ca. A. copahuensis" Giaveno et al. 2013 "A. manzaensis" Yoshida et al. 2006 A. sulfidivorans Plumb et al. 2007 A. infernus Segerer et al. 1986 A. ambivalens (Zillig & Böck 1987) Fuchs et al. 1996 "A. hospitalis" Bettstetter et al. 2003

See also

• List of Archaea genera
• List of bacterial genera named after mythological figures