Cenarchaeum

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]

Axinella polypoides in Aquarium Cinéaqua Map: 48° 51' 44" N 2° 17' 27" E

Cenarchaeum
Scientific classification
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Phylum:
Class:
incertae sedis
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Family:
Genus:
"Cenarchaeum"

DeLong and Preston 1996
Type species
"Cenarchaeum symbiosum"
DeLong and Preston 1996
Species

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): 6241–6246. Bibcode:1996PNAS...93.6241P. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.13.6241. PMC 39006. PMID 8692799.

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