Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4562

Name

Thermoanaerobium Zeikus et al. 1983

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	Thermoanaerobium brockii Zeikus et al. 1983
species	Thermoanaerobium acetigenum Nielsen et al. 1994

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 Thermoanaerobium Zeikus et al. 1983

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 Thermoanaerobium Zeikus et al. 1983. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4562.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4562.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 23, 2017.

References

Nielsen P, Mathrani IM, Ahring BK. Thermoanaerobium acetigenum spec. nov., a new anaerobic, extremely thermophilic, xylanolytic non-spore-forming bacterium isolated from an Icelandic hot spring. Arch Microbiol 1993; 159:460-464. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00288594.
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.
Garrity GM, Holt JG. Taxonomic Outline of the Archaea and Bacteria. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 155-166.
Zeikus JG, Hegge PW, Anderson MA. Thermoanaerobium brockii gen. nov., sp. nov., a new chemoorganothrophic caldoactive anaerobic bacterium. Arch Microbiol 1979; 122:41-48. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00408044.