Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9115

Name

Thermobacteroides Ben-Bassat and Zeikus 1983 emend. Ollivier et al. 1985

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	Thermoanaerobacteraceae (Garrity and Holt 2001) Wiegel 2010

Members

species	Thermobacteroides acetoethylicus Ben-Bassat and Zeikus 1983
species	Thermobacteroides leptospartum Toda et al. 1989
species	Thermobacteroides proteolyticus Ollivier et al. 1985

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 Thermoanaerobacteraceae (Garrity and Holt 2001) Wiegel 2010
genus Thermobacteroides Ben-Bassat and Zeikus 1983 emend. Ollivier et al. 1985

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 Thermobacteroides Ben-Bassat and Zeikus 1983 emend. Ollivier et al. 1985. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9115.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9115.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 6, 2010.

References

Ben-Bassat A, Zeikus JG. Thermobacteroides acetoethylicus gen. nov. and spec. nov., a new chemoorganotrophic, anaerobic, thermophilic bacterium. Arch Microbiol 1981; 128:365-370. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00405914.
Wiegel J. Family I. Thermoanaerobacteraceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity G, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, Schleifer KH, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 3, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2009, p. 1225.
Ollivier BM, Mah RA, Ferguson TJ, Boone DR, Garcia JL, Robinson R. Emendation of the genus Thermobacteroides: Thermobacteroides proteolyticus sp. nov., a proteolytic acetogen from a methanogenic enrichment. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1985; 35:425-428. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-35-4-425.
Toda Y, Saiki T, Uozomi T, Beppu T. Isolation and characterization of a protease-producing, thermophilic, anaerobic bacterium, Thermobacteroides leptospartum sp. nov. Agric Biol Chem 1988; 52:1339-1344.