Name: Sulfurisphaera tokodaii (Suzuki et al. 2002) Tsuboi et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Sulfolobus tokodaii Suzuki et al. 2002

Etymology: to.ko.da’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. tokodaii, of Tokoda (the Japanese name of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where this isolate was initially characterized)

Gender: feminine

Type strain: 7; DSM 16993; JCM 10545; NBRC 100140

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB022438 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Tsuboi K, Sakai HD, Nur N, Stedman KM, Kurosawa N, Suwanto A. Sulfurisphaera javensis sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic and acidophilic archaeon isolated from Indonesian hot spring, and reclassification of Sulfolobus tokodaii Suzuki et al. 2002 as Sulfurisphaera tokodaii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1907-1913.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2710-2711.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Sulfolobus tokodaii Suzuki et al. 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😩 Deposits incorrectly indicated in some sources as representing the type strain of this taxon: InaCC Ar81; JCM 32117.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.17941 (N = 5).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 9 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Sulfurisphaera Kurosawa et al. 1998

Assigned by: Tsuboi K, Sakai HD, Nur N, Stedman KM, Kurosawa N, Suwanto A. Sulfurisphaera javensis sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic and acidophilic archaeon isolated from Indonesian hot spring, and reclassification of Sulfolobus tokodaii Suzuki et al. 2002 as Sulfurisphaera tokodaii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1907-1913.

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Record number: 798630