Thermoanaerobacter

Thermoanaerobacter
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Clostridia
Order: Thermoanaerobacterales
Family: Thermoanaerobacteraceae
Genus: Thermoanaerobacter
Wiegel & Ljungdahl 1982
Type species
Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus
Wiegel & Ljungdahl 1982
Species

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Synonyms
  • Acetogenium Leigh & Wolfe 1983
  • Thermoanaerobium Zeikus, Hegge & Anderson 1983
  • Thermobacteroides Ben-Bassat & Zeikus 1983

Thermoanaerobacter is a genus in the phylum Bacillota (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