| Cross Index | Sufate Reducing Archaea |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Archaea |
| Compare | Methanogens Cell Wall-Less Archaeobacteria Halophilic Archaeobacteria Extremely Thermophilic Archaeobacteria |
| Contrast | Eubacteria |
| Subset | Archaeoglobus A. fulgidus A. profundus |
| Morphology | Sufate Reducing Archaea |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | |
| Morphology | |
| Motility | |
| Specialized structures | Blue green fluorescence at 420 nm under the UV microscope |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Sufate Reducing Archaea |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | strictly anaerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | Extremely thermophilic (growth up to 92 C). |
| Requires | |
| Produces | reduce sulfate to form hydrogen sulfide Produce traces of methane |
| Enzymes | RNA polymerase is of the (A+C)B'B type. |
| Unique features | Cells possess factor 420 and methanopterin but no coenzyme M and no factor 430. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Sufate Reducing Archaea |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Sufate Reducing Archaea |
| First citation | |
| Emended | |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p |
| Bergey's Determinative | p737 |
| References |