Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4536

Name

Moorella thermoautotrophica (Wiegel et al. 1982) Collins et al. 1994

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Moorella Collins et al. 1994

Type Strain

representative organism

JW 701/3^T (=ATCC 33924 =DSM 1974)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Moorellales Lv et al. 2020
family Moorellaceae Lv et al. 2020
genus Moorella Collins et al. 1994
species Moorella thermoautotrophica (Wiegel et al. 1982) Collins et al. 1994

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 species Moorella thermoautotrophica (Wiegel et al. 1982) Collins et al. 1994. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4536.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4536.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 17, 2020.

References

Collins MD, Lawson PA, Willems A, Cordoba JJ, Fernandez-Garayzabal J, Garcia P, Cai J, Hippe H, Farrow JAE. The phylogeny of the genus Clostridium: proposal of five new genera and eleven new species combinations. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:812-826. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-44-4-812 [PubMed].