Saccharolobus shibatae
| Saccharolobus shibatae | |
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| Genus: | Saccharolobus |
| Species: | S. shibatae |
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| Saccharolobus shibatae (Grogan et al. 1991) Sakai and Kurosawa 2018 | |
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Sulfolobus shibatae Grogan et al. 1991 | |
Saccharolobus shibatae is an archaeal species belongs to the phylum Thermoproteota. Saccharolobus shibatae was described for the first time as Sulfolobus shibatae in 1990, after being isolated from geothermal pools in Beppu, Japan. It was transferred from the genus Sulfolobus to the new genus Saccharolobus with the description of Saccharolobus caldissimus in 2018.