Thermoanaerobacter

Thermoanaerobacter
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Clostridia
Order: Thermoanaerobacterales
Family: Thermoanaerobacteraceae
Genus: Thermoanaerobacter
Wiegel & Ljungdahl 1982
Type species
Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus
Wiegel & Ljungdahl 1982
Species

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Synonyms
  • Acetogenium Leigh & Wolfe 1983
  • Thermoanaerobium Zeikus, Hegge & Anderson 1983
  • Thermobacteroides Ben-Bassat & Zeikus 1983

Thermoanaerobacter is a genus in the phylum Bacillota (Bacteria).[1] Members of this genus are thermophilic and anaerobic, several of them were previously described as Clostridium species and members of the now obsolete genera Acetogenium and Thermobacteroides[2][3]

  1. ^ Classification of Genus Thermoanaerobacter in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.
  2. ^ Collins, MD; Lawson, PA; Willems, A; et al. (1994). "The Phylogeny of the Genus Clostridium: Proposal of Five New Genera and Eleven New Species Combinations". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 44 (4): 812–26. doi:10.1099/00207713-44-4-812. PMID 7981107.
  3. ^ Rainey, F.A.; Stackebrandt, E. (1993). "Transfer of the type species of the genus Thermobacteroides to the genus Thermoanaerobacter as Thermoanaerobacter acetoethylicus (Ben-Bassat and Zeikus 1981) comb. nov., description of Coprothermobacter gen. nov., and reclassification of Thermobacteroides proteolyticus as Coprothermobacter proteolyticus (Ollivier et al. 1985) comb. nov". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 43 (4): 857–859. doi:10.1099/00207713-43-4-857.