Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.4544
Name
 Wiegel and Ljungdahl 1982 emend. Lee et al. 2007
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
(Garrity and Holt 2001) Wiegel 2010
Members
Wiegel and Ljungdahl 1982
(Ben-Bassat and Zeikus 1983) Rainey and Stackebrandt 1993
(Zeikus et al. 1983) Lee et al. 1993 emend. Cayol et al. 1995
Schmid et al. 1986
Kozianowski et al. 1998
Riessen and Antranikian 2001
(Leigh and Wolfe 1983) Collins et al. 1994
Larsen et al. 1998 emend. Carlier et al. 2006
Tomás et al. 2013
Onyenwoke et al. 2007
Slobodkin et al. 1999
Fardeau et al. 2000
Lee et al. 2007
Bonch-Osmolovskaya et al. 1998
Xue et al. 2001
(Jin et al. 1988) Collins et al. 1994
(Klaushofer and Parkkinen 1965) Lee et al. 1993
Wagner et al. 2008
Cook et al. 1996
Kim et al. 2001
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
  Rainey 2010
  (Garrity and Holt 2001) Wiegel 2010 emend. Lv et al. 2020
  (Garrity and Holt 2001) Wiegel 2010
  Wiegel and Ljungdahl 1982 emend. Lee et al. 2007

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 Thermoanaerobacter Wiegel and Ljungdahl 1982 emend. Lee et al. 2007. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4544.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on August 11, 2015.

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