Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.585

Name

Thermomicrobium Jackson et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Thermomicrobiaceae Garrity and Holt 2002

Members

species	Thermomicrobium roseum Jackson et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Houghton et al. 2015
species	Thermomicrobium carboxidum King and King 2014 emend. Houghton et al. 2015
species	Thermomicrobium fosteri Phillips and Perry 1976 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Thermomicrobium sp. None 2015

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 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
genus Thermomicrobium Jackson et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Thermomicrobium Jackson et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.585.

Source File

10.1601/tx.585.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 5, 2014.

References

Jackson TJ, Ramaley RF, Meinschein WG. Thermomicrobium, a new genus of extremely thermophilic bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1973; 23:28-36. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-23-1-28.
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].
Phillips WE, Perry JJ. Thermomicrobium fosteri sp. nov., a hydrocarbon-utilizing obligate thermophile. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1976; 26:220-225. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-26-2-220.
No reference is available 2015