Ignicoccus

Ignicoccus
Ignicoccus hospitalis (with two smaller, symbiotic Nanoarchaeum equitans)
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Thermoproteati
Phylum: Thermoproteota
Class: Thermoprotei
Order: Desulfurococcales
Family: Desulfurococcaceae
Genus:
Huber, Burggraf, Mayer, Wyschkony, Rachel & Stetter 2000
Type species
Ignicoccus islandicus
Huber & Stetter 2000
Species
  • I. islandicus
  • I. pacificus
  • I. hospitalis

Ignicoccus is a genus of hyperthermophillic Archaea living in marine hydrothermal vents. They were discovered in samples taken at the Kolbeinsey Ridge north of Iceland, as well as at the East Pacific Rise (at 9 degrees N, 104 degrees W) in 2000.[1]

  1. ^ Huber H, Burggraf S, Mayer T, Rachel R, Stetter KO (November 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. and Ignicoccus pacificus sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 50 (6): 2093–2100. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-6-2093. PMID 11155984.
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