WoRMS taxon details
Marinitoga piezophila Alain, Marteinsson, Miroshnichenko, Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Prieur & Birrien, 2002
567383 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:567383)
accepted
Species
marine
Alain, K., Marteinsson, V.T., Miroshnichenko, M.L., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Prieur, D., and Birrien, J.L. "Marinitoga piezophila sp. nov., a rod-shaped, thermo-piezophilic bacterium isolated under high hydrostatic pressure from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2002) 52:1331-1339.
, available online at https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-4-1331 [details]
Depth range Isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal chimney sample collected at a depth of 2630 m on the East-Pacific Rise (13 degrees N)
Depth range Isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal chimney sample collected at a depth of 2630 m on the East-Pacific Rise (13 degrees N) [details]
WoRMS (2026). Marinitoga piezophila Alain, Marteinsson, Miroshnichenko, Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Prieur & Birrien, 2002. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=567383 on 2026-08-26
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Nomenclature
original description
Alain, K., Marteinsson, V.T., Miroshnichenko, M.L., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Prieur, D., and Birrien, J.L. "Marinitoga piezophila sp. nov., a rod-shaped, thermo-piezophilic bacterium isolated under high hydrostatic pressure from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2002) 52:1331-1339.
, available online at https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-4-1331 [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Alain, K., Marteinsson, V.T., Miroshnichenko, M.L., Bonch-Osmolovskaya, E.A., Prieur, D., and Birrien, J.L. "Marinitoga piezophila sp. nov., a rod-shaped, thermo-piezophilic bacterium isolated under high hydrostatic pressure from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2002) 52:1331-1339.
, available online at https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-4-1331 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From regional or thematic species database
Depth range Isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal chimney sample collected at a depth of 2630 m on the East-Pacific Rise (13 degrees N) [details]
