Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4507

Name

Thermosyntropha Svetlitshnyi et al. 1996

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	Syntrophomonadaceae Zhao et al. 1993 emend. Zhang et al. 2019

Members

species	Thermosyntropha lipolytica Svetlitshnyi et al. 1996
species	Thermosyntropha tengcongensis Zhang et al. 2012

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
family Syntrophomonadaceae Zhao et al. 1993 emend. Zhang et al. 2019
genus Thermosyntropha Svetlitshnyi et al. 1996

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 Thermosyntropha Svetlitshnyi et al. 1996. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4507.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4507.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 11, 2012.

References

Zhang F, Liu X, Dong X. Thermosyntropha tengcongensis sp. nov., a thermophilic bacterium that degrades long-chain fatty acids syntrophically. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:759-763. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.033456-0 [PubMed].
Svetlitshnyi V, Rainey F, Wiegel J. Thermosyntropha lipolytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a lipolytic, anaerobic, alkalitolerant, thermophilic bacterium utilizing short- and long-chain fatty acids in syntrophic coculture with a methanogenic archaeum. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:1131-1137. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-46-4-1131 [PubMed].