Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.584

Name

Thermomicrobiaceae Garrity and Holt 2002

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Thermomicrobiales Garrity and Holt 2002

Members

genus	Thermomicrobium Jackson et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus	Sphaerobacter Demharter et al. 1989
genus	Thermorudis King and King 2014

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Chloroflexi (sic) Garrity and Holt 2021 emend. Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt 2004 non Chloroflexi Gupta et al. 2013
class Thermomicrobia Garrity and Holt 2002 emend. Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt 2004 non Thermomicrobia Garrity and Holt 2021
order Thermomicrobiales Garrity and Holt 2002
family Thermomicrobiaceae Garrity and Holt 2002

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 family Thermomicrobiaceae Garrity and Holt 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.584.

Source File

10.1601/tx.584.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 16, 2017.

References

Hugenholtz P, Stackebrandt E. Reclassification of Sphaerobacter thermophilus from the subclass Sphaerobacteridae in the phylum Actinobacteria to the class Thermomicrobia (emended description) in the phylum Chloroflexi (emended description). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:2049-2051. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03028-0 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Holt JG. Family I. Thermomicrobiaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 447.
King CE, King GM. Thermomicrobium carboxidum sp. nov., and Thermorudis peleae gen. nov., sp. nov., carbon monoxide-oxidizing bacteria isolated from geothermally heated biofilms. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2586-2592. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.060327-0 [PubMed].