Table 12: The Order Thermoplasmatales
|
| Species |
Location |
Morphology |
- Temperature
- (optimum, °C)
|
- pH Range
- (Optimum)
|
Metabolism |
Electron Donor |
Electron Acceptor |
Comments |
Ref. |
| Thermoplasma acidophilum |
Self-heated coal refuse pile, Friar Tuck Mine, Indiana, solfatara fields |
Pleomorhic spheres without cell walls. |
- 45-63
- (59)
|
- 0.5-4
- (1-2)
|
O, M |
Yeast extract |
S(0); organics |
Facultatively aerobic; anaerobic growth strongly enhanced by S(0) |
- Darland et al. (1970)
|
| Thermoplasma volcanium |
Marine and terrestrial habitats in Italy, Azores, Iceland, United States, Indonesia |
Filamentous, disk, club or coccoid shaped |
- 33-67
- (60)
|
- 1-4
- (2)
|
O, M |
Yeast extract; meat extract; bacterial extracts |
S(0); organics |
Facultatively aerobic; anaerobic growth strongly enhanced by S(0) |
Segerer et al. (1988) |
| Picrophilus oshimae |
Solfataric field, Hokkaido, Japan |
Irregular cocci |
- 47-65
- (60)
|
- 0-3.5
- (0.7)
|
O |
Yeast extract; tryptone |
Organics |
Plasmids occur in some strains |
Schleper et al. (1996) |
| Picrophilus torridus |
Dry hot soil at a solfartaric field, Hokkaido, Japan |
Irregular cocci |
- 47-65
- (60)
|
- 0-3.5
- (0.7)
|
O |
Yeast extract; tryptone |
Organics |
No plasmids present |
Schleper et al. (1995) |
