Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.11107

Name

Thermoanaerobacter brockii (Zeikus et al. 1983) Lee et al. 1993 emend. Cayol et al. 1995

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Thermoanaerobacter Wiegel and Ljungdahl 1982 emend. Lee et al. 2007

Members

subspecies	Thermoanaerobacter brockii brockii (Zeikus et al. 1983) Lee et al. 1993
subspecies	Thermoanaerobacter brockii finnii (Schmid et al. 1986) Cayol et al. 1995
subspecies	Thermoanaerobacter brockii lactiethylicus Cayol et al. 1995

Type Strain

representative organism

HTD4^T (=ATCC 53556 =DSM 1457 =ATCC 33075)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Thermoanaerobacterales (Garrity and Holt 2001) Wiegel 2010 emend. Lv et al. 2020
family Thermoanaerobacteraceae (Garrity and Holt 2001) Wiegel 2010
genus Thermoanaerobacter Wiegel and Ljungdahl 1982 emend. Lee et al. 2007
species Thermoanaerobacter brockii (Zeikus et al. 1983) Lee et al. 1993 emend. Cayol et al. 1995

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Thermoanaerobacter brockii (Zeikus et al. 1983) Lee et al. 1993 emend. Cayol et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.11107.

Source File

10.1601/tx.11107.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 6, 2017.

References

Lee YE, Jain MK, Lee C, Lowe SE, Zeikus JG. Taxonomic distinction of saccharolytic thermophilic anaerobes: description of Thermoanaerobacterium xylanolyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., and Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum gen. nov., sp. nov.; reclassification of Thermoanaerobium brockii, Clostridium thermosulfurogenes, and Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum E100-69 as Thermoanaerobacter brockii comb. nov., Thermoanaerobacterium thermosulfurigenes comb. nov., and Thermoanaerobacter thermohydrosulfuricus comb. nov., respectively; and transfer of Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum 39E to Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:41-51. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-43-1-41.
Cayol JL, Ollivier B, Patel BKC, Ravot G, Magot M, Ageron E, Grimont PAD, Garcia JL. Description of Thermoanaerobacter brockii subsp. lactiethylicus subsp. nov., isolated from a deep subsurface French oil well, a proposal to reclassify Thermoanaerobacter finnii as Thermoanaerobacter brockii subsp. finnii comb. nov., and an emended description of Thermoanaerobacter brockii. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:783-789. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-4-783 [PubMed].