Thiococcus pfennigii (DSM 227, 8816)

Name: Thiococcus pfennigii (DSM 227, 8816)
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BacDive ID 2466

Type strain

Strain Designation 8816

Culture col. no. DSM 227 8816

NCBI tax ID(s) 1057

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Thiococcus pfennigii 8816 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from salt marshes.

anaerobe mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47098

DSM 227

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:19

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Chromatiales

Family Chromatiaceae

Genus Thiococcus

Species Thiococcus pfennigii

Full scientific name Thiococcus pfennigii (Eimhjellen 1970) Imhoff et al. 1998

Synonyms (1)

Thiocapsa pfennigii

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Thiococcus pfennigii** (2)	Type strain
2465	T. pfennigii 8013, DSM 226
2467	T. pfennigii 9111, DSM 228

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
55	PFENNIG'S MEDIUM I (modified 1988, for purple sulfur bacteria) (DSMZ Medium 28)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PFENNIG'S MEDIUM I (DSMZ Medium 28) Composition: NaHCO3 1.5 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.592592 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.500001 g/l KCl 0.349999 g/l KH2PO4 0.349999 g/l Ammonium chloride 0.349999 g/l Pyruvic acid sodium salt 0.25 g/l Dextrose 0.25 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.25 g/l Yeast extract 0.25 g/l Ammonium acetate 0.25 g/l Na2-EDTA 0.003 g/l Resazurin 0.00225 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0011 g/l Vitamin B12 0.001 g/l H3BO3 0.0003 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00019 g/l MnCl2 x 2 H2O 5e-05 g/l ZnCl2 4.2e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.4e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 1.8e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 2e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
55	positive	growth	25	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Salt marsh
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

Sample typesalt marshes

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FN293056 (>99% sequence identity) for Thiococcus pfennigii from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	41
Soil Samples	12
Animal Samples	1
Plant Samples
Total Samples	54

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
55	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20218	Thiococcus pfennigii strain DSM 227 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF675612	571		1057
55	Thiococcus pfennigii partial 16S rRNA gene, strain 4251 = DSM 227	FN293056	1468		1057

GC content

GC-content (mol%)69.9

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#55	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 227
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#20218	Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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