Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.22995

Name

Thermovorax Mäkinen et al. 2012

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	Thermosediminibacteraceae Zhang et al. 2019

Members

species	Thermovorax subterraneus Mäkinen et al. 2012

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 Thermosediminibacterales Zhang et al. 2019
family Thermosediminibacteraceae Zhang et al. 2019
genus Thermovorax Mäkinen et al. 2012

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 Thermovorax Mäkinen et al. 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.22995.

Source File

10.1601/tx.22995.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 9, 2012.

References

Zhang X, Tu B, Lv X-M, Lawson PA, Yang M, Dai L-R, Zhang H, Tang Y-Q, Deng Y, Cheng L. Description of Biomaibacter acetigenes gen. nov., sp. nov., and proposal of Thermosediminibacterales ord. nov. containing two novel families of Tepidanaerobacteraceae fam. nov. and Thermosediminibacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3891-3902. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003701 [PubMed].
Mäkinen AE, Kaksonen AH, Puhakka JA. Thermovorax subterraneus, gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic hydrogen-producing bacterium isolated from geothermally active underground mine. Extremophiles 2009; 13:505-510. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-009-0235-5 [PubMed].