taxonomy Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification. A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...

, ''Desulfurococcus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of the

Desulfurococcaceae In taxonomy, the Desulfurococcaceae are a family of the disc-shaped anaerobic microorganisms belonging to the order Desulfurococcales, in the domain Archaea. Members of this family are distinguished from the other family ( Pyrodictiaceae) in ...

.See the

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Type strain of ''Desulfurococcus mobilis'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Archaea genera Formatotrophs Thermoproteota {{archaea-stub

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