''Sulfolobus tokodaii'' is a
thermophilic
A thermophile is an organism—a type of extremophile—that thrives at relatively high temperatures, between . Many thermophiles are archaea, though they can be bacteria or fungi. Thermophilic eubacteria are suggested to have been among the earl ...
archaeon
Archaea ( ; singular archaeon ) is a domain of single-celled organisms. These microorganisms lack cell nuclei and are therefore prokaryotes. Archaea were initially classified as bacteria, receiving the name archaebacteria (in the Archaebact ...
. It is
acidophilic and obligately aerobic. The type strain is 7 (JCM 10545).
Its genome has been sequenced.
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LPSNType strain of ''Sulfolobus tokodaii'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Thermoproteota
Archaea described in 2002
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