Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2204

Name

Thermithiobacillus Kelly and Wood 2000

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	Thermithiobacillaceae Garrity et al. 2005

Members

species	Thermithiobacillus tepidarius (Wood and Kelly 1985) Kelly and Wood 2000
species	Thermithiobacillus plumbiphilus Watanabe et al. 2016

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 Acidithiobacillia Williams and Kelly 2013
order Acidithiobacillales Garrity et al. 2005
family Thermithiobacillaceae Garrity et al. 2005
genus Thermithiobacillus Kelly and Wood 2000

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 Thermithiobacillus Kelly and Wood 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2204.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2204.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 12, 2016.

References

Kelly DP, Wood AP. Reclassification of some species of Thiobacillus to the newly designated genera Acidithiobacillus gen. nov., Halothiobacillus gen. nov. and Thermithiobacillus gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:511-516. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-2-511 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family II. Thermithiobacillaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part B, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 62.
Watanabe T, Miura A, Shinohara A, Kojima H, Fukui M. Thermithiobacillus plumbiphilus sp. nov., a sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from lead sulfide. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1986-1989. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000972 [PubMed].