Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4511

Name

Thermoanaerobacterium Lee et al. 1993 emend. Cann et al. 2001

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	Thermovenabulaceae Parks et al. 2018

Members

species	Thermoanaerobacterium thermosulfurigenes (Schink and Zeikus 1983) Lee et al. 1993
species	Thermoanaerobacterium aciditolerans Kublanov et al. 2007
species	Thermoanaerobacterium aotearoense Liu et al. 1996
species	Thermoanaerobacterium butyriciformans López et al. 2019
species	Thermoanaerobacterium calidifontis Shang et al. 2013
species	Thermoanaerobacterium polysaccharolyticum Cann et al. 2001
species	Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum Lee et al. 1993
species	Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum (McClung 1935) Collins et al. 1994
species	Thermoanaerobacterium thermostercoris corrig. Romano et al. 2011
species	Thermoanaerobacterium xylanolyticum Lee et al. 1993
species	Thermoanaerobacterium zeae Cann et al. 2001

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 Thermoanaerobacterales (Garrity and Holt 2001) Wiegel 2010 emend. Lv et al. 2020
family Thermovenabulaceae Parks et al. 2018
genus Thermoanaerobacterium Lee et al. 1993 emend. Cann et al. 2001

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 Thermoanaerobacterium Lee et al. 1993 emend. Cann et al. 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4511.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4511.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 27, 2017.

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