Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1686

Name

Thermothrix Caldwell et al. 1981

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Burkholderiaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Members

species	Thermothrix thiopara Caldwell et al. 1981
species	Thermothrix azorensis Odintsova et al. 1996

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006
family Burkholderiaceae Garrity et al. 2006
genus Thermothrix Caldwell et al. 1981

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 genus Thermothrix Caldwell et al. 1981. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1686.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1686.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 16, 2009.

References

Caldwell DE, Caldwell SJ, Laycock JP. Thermothrix thioparus gen. et sp. nov. a facultatively anaerobic facultative chemolithotroph living at neutral pH and high temperature. Can J Microbiol 1976; 22:1509-1517. [PubMed].
Odintsova EV, Jannasch HW, Mamone JA, Langworthy TA. Thermothrix azorensis sp. nov., an obligately chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing, thermophilic bacterium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:422-428. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-46-2-422 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Burkholderiaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 575.