| Thermococcus stetteri | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Archaea |
| Kingdom: | Euryarchaeota |
| Phylum: | Euryarchaeota |
| Class: | Thermococci |
| Order: | Thermococcales |
| Family: | Thermococcaceae |
| Genus: | Thermococcus |
| Species: | T. stetteri |
| Binomial name | |
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Thermococcus stetteri Miroshnichenko 1990 |
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Thermococcus stetteri is an extremely thermophilic marine sulfur-metabolizing archaebacterium. It is anaerobic, its cells being irregular cocci 1 to 2 μm in diameter. Of the strains first isolated, two were motile due to a tuft of flagella, while the other two strains were non-motile. Its type strain is K-3 (DSM 5262). It can grow on starch, pectin and peptides but not amino acids.