Coprothermobacteria

Coprothermobacteria is a taxonomic class of bacteria in the phylum Coprothermobacterota.[1]

Coprothermobacteria
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Coprothermobacterota
Class:
Coprothermobacteria
Order

Coprothermobacterales

Currently, this class is represented by a single order of bacteria, with only one family to which belongs a genus (Coprothermobacter) of non-motile, rod-shaped microorganisms that stain Gram-negative, are non-spore-forming, strictly anaerobic, thermophilic and chemoautotroph.[2]

References
  1. Pavan, María Elisa; Pavan, Esteban E.; Glaeser, Stefanie P.; Etchebehere, Claudia; Kämpfer, Peter; Pettinari, María Julia; López, Nancy I. (2018). "Proposal for a new classification of a deep branching bacterial phylogenetic lineage: transfer of Coprothermobacter proteolyticus and Coprothermobacter platensis to Coprothermobacteraceae fam. nov., within Coprothermobacterales ord. nov., Coprothermobacteria classis nov. and Coprothermobacterota phyl. nov. and emended description of the family Thermodesulfobiaceae". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 68 (5): 1627–1632. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.002720.
  2. Pavan, María E.; Pavan, Esteban E.; Kämpfer, Peter; Pettinari, M. Julia; López, Nancy I. (2019-06-27), "Coprothermobacteria", Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, p. 1, doi:10.1002/9781118960608.cbm00074, ISBN 9781118960608


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