Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7652

Name

Acidothermus Mohagheghi et al. 1986

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	Acidothermaceae Rainey et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009

Members

species	Acidothermus cellulolyticus Mohagheghi et al. 1986 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

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 Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
order Acidothermales Sen et al. 2014
family Acidothermaceae Rainey et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
genus Acidothermus Mohagheghi et al. 1986

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 Acidothermus Mohagheghi et al. 1986. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7652.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7652.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 6, 2010.

References

Mohagheghi A, Grohmann K, Himmel M, Leighton L, Updegraff DM. Isolation and characterization of Acidothermus cellulolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus of thermophilic, acidophilic, cellulolytic bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1986; 36:435-443. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-36-3-435.
Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:479-491. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-2-479.