diff --git a/modules/krona/kronadb/main.nf b/modules/krona/kronadb/main.nf
index afcb0694..eaab43f0 100644
--- a/modules/krona/kronadb/main.nf
+++ b/modules/krona/kronadb/main.nf
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ process KRONA_KRONADB {
     script:
     def args = task.ext.args ?: ''
     """
-    ktUpdateTaxonomy.sh taxonomy
+    ktUpdateTaxonomy.sh \\
+        $args \\
+        taxonomy/
 
     cat <<-END_VERSIONS > versions.yml
     "${task.process}":
diff --git a/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/main.nf b/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/main.nf
index 7837bb87..bc78c6ba 100644
--- a/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/main.nf
+++ b/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/main.nf
@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@ process KRONA_KTIMPORTTAXONOMY {
     script:
     def args = task.ext.args ?: ''
     """
-    ktImportTaxonomy "$report" -tax taxonomy
+    ktImportTaxonomy \\
+        $args \\
+        -tax taxonomy/ \\
+        "$report"
 
     cat <<-END_VERSIONS > versions.yml
     "${task.process}":
diff --git a/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/meta.yml b/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/meta.yml
index b65919f8..df0ad1c9 100644
--- a/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/meta.yml
+++ b/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/meta.yml
@@ -23,8 +23,11 @@ input:
         Groovy Map containing sample information
         e.g. [ id:'test']
   - database:
-      type: path
-      description: "Path to the taxonomy database downloaded by krona/kronadb"
+      type: file
+      description: |
+        Path to the taxonomy database .tab file downloaded by krona/ktUpdateTaxonomy
+        The file will be saved under a folder named "taxonomy" as "taxonomy/taxonomy.tab".
+        The parent folder will be passed as argument to ktImportTaxonomy.
   - report:
       type: file
       description: "A tab-delimited file with taxonomy IDs and (optionally) query IDs, magnitudes, and scores.  Query IDs are taken from column 1, taxonomy IDs from column 2, and scores from column 3.  Lines beginning with # will be ignored."
diff --git a/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf b/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8326f219
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+def VERSION='2.7.1' // Version information not provided by tool on CLI
+
+process KRONA_KTUPDATETAXONOMY {
+    label 'process_low'
+
+    conda (params.enable_conda ? "bioconda::krona=2.7.1" : null)
+    container "${ workflow.containerEngine == 'singularity' && !task.ext.singularity_pull_docker_container ?
+        'https://depot.galaxyproject.org/singularity/krona:2.7.1--pl526_5' :
+        'quay.io/biocontainers/krona:2.7.1--pl526_5' }"
+
+    output:
+    path 'taxonomy/taxonomy.tab', emit: db
+    path "versions.yml"         , emit: versions
+
+    when:
+    task.ext.when == null || task.ext.when
+
+    script:
+    def args = task.ext.args ?: ''
+    """
+    ktUpdateTaxonomy.sh \\
+        $args \\
+        taxonomy/
+
+    cat <<-END_VERSIONS > versions.yml
+    "${task.process}":
+        krona: $VERSION
+    END_VERSIONS
+    """
+}
diff --git a/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/meta.yml b/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/meta.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..945b5062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/meta.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+name: krona_ktupdatetaxonomy
+description: KronaTools Update Taxonomy downloads a taxonomy database
+keywords:
+  - database
+  - taxonomy
+  - krona
+  - visualisation
+tools:
+  - krona:
+      description: Krona Tools is a set of scripts to create Krona charts from several Bioinformatics tools as well as from text and XML files.
+      homepage: https://github.com/marbl/Krona/wiki/KronaTools
+      documentation: https://github.com/marbl/Krona/wiki/Installing
+      tool_dev_url:
+      doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-12-385
+      licence:
+
+input:
+  - none: There is no input. This module downloads a pre-built taxonomy database for use with Krona Tools.
+
+output:
+  - versions:
+      type: file
+      description: File containing software versions
+      pattern: "versions.yml"
+  - db:
+      type: file
+      description: A TAB separated file that contains a taxonomy database.
+      pattern: "*.{tab}"
+
+authors:
+  - "@mjakobs"
diff --git a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
index 32a28477..031f5717 100644
--- a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
+++ b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
@@ -1058,6 +1058,10 @@ krona/kronadb:
   - modules/krona/kronadb/**
   - tests/modules/krona/kronadb/**
 
+krona/ktupdatetaxonomy:
+  - modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/**
+  - tests/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/**
+
 krona/ktimporttaxonomy:
   - modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/**
   - tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/**
diff --git a/tests/config/test_data.config b/tests/config/test_data.config
index 62e38c4d..e9a5f4ab 100644
--- a/tests/config/test_data.config
+++ b/tests/config/test_data.config
@@ -111,7 +111,9 @@ params {
                 test_sequencing_summary                        = "${test_data_dir}/genomics/sarscov2/nanopore/sequencing_summary/test.sequencing_summary.txt"
             }
             'metagenome' {
+                classified_reads_assignment                    = "${test_data_dir}/genomics/sarscov2/metagenome/test_1.kraken2.reads.txt"
                 kraken_report                                  = "${test_data_dir}/genomics/sarscov2/metagenome/test_1.kraken2.report.txt"
+                krona_taxonomy                                 = "${test_data_dir}/genomics/sarscov2/metagenome/krona_taxonomy.tab"
             }
         }
         'homo_sapiens' {
diff --git a/tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/main.nf b/tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/main.nf
index a23e6fcb..7b39ee82 100644
--- a/tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/main.nf
+++ b/tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/main.nf
@@ -2,15 +2,27 @@
 
 nextflow.enable.dsl = 2
 
-include { KRONA_KTIMPORTTAXONOMY } from '../../../../modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/main.nf'
+include { KRONA_KTIMPORTTAXONOMY as KRONA_KTIMPORTTAXONOMY_READS  } from '../../../../modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/main.nf'
+include { KRONA_KTIMPORTTAXONOMY as KRONA_KTIMPORTTAXONOMY_REPORT } from '../../../../modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/main.nf'
 
-workflow test_krona_ktimporttaxonomy {
+workflow test_krona_ktimporttaxonomy_reads {
 
     input = [
         [ id:'test', single_end:false ], // meta map
-        file(params.test_data['generic']['txt']['hello'], checkIfExists: true)
+        file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['metagenome']['classified_reads_assignment'], checkIfExists: true)
     ]
-    taxonomy = file(params.test_data['generic']['txt']['hello'], checkIfExists: true)
+    taxonomy = file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['metagenome']['krona_taxonomy'], checkIfExists: true)
 
-    KRONA_KTIMPORTTAXONOMY ( input, taxonomy )
+    KRONA_KTIMPORTTAXONOMY_READS ( input, taxonomy )
+}
+
+workflow test_krona_ktimporttaxonomy_report {
+
+    input = [
+        [ id:'test', single_end:false ], // meta map
+        file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['metagenome']['kraken_report'], checkIfExists: true)
+    ]
+    taxonomy = file(params.test_data['sarscov2']['metagenome']['krona_taxonomy'], checkIfExists: true)
+
+    KRONA_KTIMPORTTAXONOMY_REPORT ( input, taxonomy )
 }
diff --git a/tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/nextflow.config b/tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/nextflow.config
index 8730f1c4..fb4d86f5 100644
--- a/tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/nextflow.config
+++ b/tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/nextflow.config
@@ -2,4 +2,12 @@ process {
 
     publishDir = { "${params.outdir}/${task.process.tokenize(':')[-1].tokenize('_')[0].toLowerCase()}" }
 
+    withName: KRONA_KTIMPORTTAXONOMY_READS {
+        ext.args = '-t 3'
+    }
+
+    withName: KRONA_KTIMPORTTAXONOMY_REPORT {
+        ext.args = '-m 3 -t 5'
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/test.yml b/tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/test.yml
index b7748980..ffcb5669 100644
--- a/tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/test.yml
+++ b/tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/test.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,23 @@
-- name: krona ktimporttaxonomy test_krona_ktimporttaxonomy
-  command: nextflow run ./tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy -entry test_krona_ktimporttaxonomy -c ./tests/config/nextflow.config -c ./tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy/nextflow.config
+- name: krona ktimporttaxonomy test_krona_ktimporttaxonomy_reads
+  command: nextflow run tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy -entry test_krona_ktimporttaxonomy_reads -c tests/config/nextflow.config
   tags:
-    - krona/ktimporttaxonomy
     - krona
+    - krona/ktimporttaxonomy
   files:
     - path: output/krona/taxonomy.krona.html
       contains:
         - "DOCTYPE html PUBLIC"
+    - path: output/krona/versions.yml
+      md5sum: 660a8c151191bf4c63bd96db2c7fe503
+
+- name: krona ktimporttaxonomy test_krona_ktimporttaxonomy_report
+  command: nextflow run tests/modules/krona/ktimporttaxonomy -entry test_krona_ktimporttaxonomy_report -c tests/config/nextflow.config
+  tags:
+    - krona
+    - krona/ktimporttaxonomy
+  files:
+    - path: output/krona/taxonomy.krona.html
+      contains:
+        - "DOCTYPE html PUBLIC"
+    - path: output/krona/versions.yml
+      md5sum: 8a593c16bb2d4132638fb0fc342fe2b7
diff --git a/tests/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf b/tests/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d2d18f31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env nextflow
+
+nextflow.enable.dsl = 2
+
+include { KRONA_KTUPDATETAXONOMY } from '../../../../modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/main.nf'
+
+workflow test_krona_ktupdatetaxonomy {
+    KRONA_KTUPDATETAXONOMY ( )
+}
diff --git a/tests/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/nextflow.config b/tests/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/nextflow.config
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8730f1c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/nextflow.config
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+process {
+
+    publishDir = { "${params.outdir}/${task.process.tokenize(':')[-1].tokenize('_')[0].toLowerCase()}" }
+
+}
diff --git a/tests/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/test.yml b/tests/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/test.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b50fe8f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/test.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+- name: krona ktupdatetaxonomy test_krona_ktupdatetaxonomy
+  command: nextflow run ./tests/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy -entry test_krona_ktupdatetaxonomy -c ./tests/config/nextflow.config -c ./tests/modules/krona/ktupdatetaxonomy/nextflow.config
+  tags:
+    - krona
+    - krona/ktupdatetaxonomy
+  files:
+    - path: output/krona/taxonomy/taxonomy.tab