Thermoanaerobacter


Thermoanaerobacter is a genus in the phylum Firmicutes. 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

Etymology

The name Thermoanaerobacter derives from:
Greek adjective thermos , hot; Greek prefix an , not; Greek noun aer, aeros , air; New Latin masculine gender noun, bacter, 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.

Species

The genus contains 15 species, namely
Three former members of this genus, T. subterraneus, T. tengcongensis and T. yonseiensis, were reclassified as subspecies of Caldanaerobacter subterraneus