Cenarchaeum

Cenarchaeum
Scientific classification
Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Crenarchaeota
Phylum: Thaumarchaeota
Class: incertae sedis
Order: Cenarchaeales
Family: Cenarchaeaceae
Genus: Cenarchaeum
Species
Synonyms
  • "Cenarchaeum" DeLong and Preston 1996

In taxonomy, Cenarchaeum is a genus of the Cenarchaeaceae.[1] The marine archaean Cenarchaeum symbiosum lives within (it is an endosymbiont of) the sponge Axinella mexicana.[2]

References

  1. See the NCBI webpage on Cenarchaeum. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  2. Preston, C.M.; Wu, K.Y.; Molinski, T.F.; Delong, E.F. (1996). "A psychrophilic crenarchaeon inhabits a marine sponge: Cenarchaeum symbiosum gen. nov., sp. nov.". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93 (13): 62416246. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.13.6241. PMC 39006. PMID 8692799.

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