Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4528

Name

Coprothermobacter Rainey and Stackebrandt 1993

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	Coprothermobacteraceae Pavan et al. 2018

Members

species	Coprothermobacter proteolyticus (Ollivier et al. 1985) Rainey and Stackebrandt 1993
species	Coprothermobacter platensis Etchebehere et al. 1998

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 Coprothermobacterota Pavan et al. 2021
class Coprothermobacteria Pavan et al. 2018
order Coprothermobacterales Pavan et al. 2018
family Coprothermobacteraceae Pavan et al. 2018
genus Coprothermobacter Rainey and Stackebrandt 1993

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 Coprothermobacter Rainey and Stackebrandt 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4528.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4528.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 11, 2018.

References

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Rainey FA, Stackebrandt E. Transfer of the type species of the genus Thermobacteroides to the genus Thermoanaerobacter as Thermoanaerobacter acetoethylicus (Ben-Bassat and Zeikus 1981) comb.nov., description of Coprothermobacter gen. nov., and reclassification of Thermobacteroides proteolyticus as Coprothermobacter proteolyticus (Ollivier et al. 1985). Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:857-859. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-43-4-857.
Pavan ME, Pavan EE, Glaeser SP, Etchebehere C, Kämpfer P, Pettinari MJ, López NI. Proposal for a new classification of a deep branching bacterial phylogenetic lineage: transfer of Coprothermobacter proteolyticus and Coprothermobacter platensis to Coprothermobacteraceae fam. nov., within Coprothermobacterales ord. nov., Coprothermobacteria classis nov. and Coprothermobacterota phyl. nov. and emended description of the family Thermodesulfobiaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1627-1632. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002720 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Holt JG. Taxonomic Outline of the Archaea and Bacteria. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 155-166.
Etchebehere C, Pavan ME, Zorzópulos J, Soubes M, Muxí L. Coprothermobacter platensis sp. nov., a new anaerobic proteolytic thermophilic bacterium isolated from an anaerobic mesophilic sludge. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1297-1304. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-4-1297 [PubMed].