Thermoanaerobacter

Thermoanaerobacter
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	"Firmicutes"
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Thermoanaerobacterales
Family:	Thermoanaerobacteraceae
Genus:	Thermoanaerobacter
Type species
T. ethanolicus

Thermoanaerobacter is a genus in the phylum Firmicutes (Bacteria). Members of this genus are thermophilic and anaerobic, several of them were previously described as Clostridium species and members of the now obsolete genera Acetogenium and Thermobacteroides

The name Thermoanaerobacter derives from:
Greek adjective thermos (θερμός), hot; Greek prefix an (ἄν), not; Greek noun aer, aeros (ἀήρ, ἀέρος), air; New Latin masculine gender noun, a rodbacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; New Latin masculine gender noun Thermoanaerobacter, rod which grows in the absence of air at elevated temperatures.

The genus contains 15 species, namely

Three members of this genus, T. subterraneus, T. tengcongensis and T. yonseiensis, were reclassified as subspecies of Caldanaerobacter subterraneus

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