Picrophilus oshimae

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Picrophilus oshimae
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Domain: Archaea
Kingdom: Methanobacteriati
Phylum: Thermoplasmatota
Class: Thermoplasmata
Order: Thermoplasmatales
Family: Picrophilaceae
Genus: Picrophilus
Species:
P. oshimae
Binomial name
Picrophilus oshimae
Schleper et al. 1996

Picrophilus oshimae is a species of Archaea described in 1996. [1] Picrophilus oshimae was found in a fumarole in Hokkaido, Japan. The hot spring the fumarole was located in had a pH of 2.2. [2]

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  1. Schleper; Pühler; Klenk & Zillig (July 1996). "Picrophilus oshimae and Picrophilus tomdus fam. nov., gen. nov., sp. nov., Two Species of Hyperacidophilic, Thermophilic, Heterotrophic, Aerobic Archae". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology . 46 (3): 814–816. doi: 10.1099/00207713-46-3-814 . ISSN   1466-5034. OCLC   807119723.
  2. Siddiqui; Thomas, eds. (2008). "Thermoacidophiles and their Protein Adaptation to Low pH and High Temperature". Protein Adaptation in Extremophiles. Nova Publishers. ISBN   978-1-60456-019-0 . Retrieved 31 October 2013.

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