Thermaerobacter

Thermaerobacter
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Firmicutes
Class:	Clostridia Rainey 2010
Order:	Clostridiales Prévot 1953
Genus:	Thermaerobacter Takai et al. 1999 emend. Spanevello et al. 2002
Species
Thermaerobacter composti Yabe et al. 2010 Thermaerobacter litoralis Tanaka et al. 2006 Thermaerobacter marianensis Takai et al. 1999 Thermaerobacter nagasakiensis Nunoura et al. 2002 Thermaerobacter subterraneus Spanevello et al. 2002

The Thermaerobacter are an unassigned genus of bacteria placed within the class clostridia. Originally placed within the highly polyphyletic class Clostridia, order Clostridiales and family Clostridiales Family XVII. Incertae Sedis, according to the NCBI and LPSN, it is now thought to lie outside of the Firmicutes.

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) ^[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)^[2] and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 111 by The All-Species Living Tree Project ^[3]

	T. marianensis Takai et al. 1999 (type sp.) T. composti Yabe et al. 2010 T. litoralis Tanaka et al. 2006 T. nagasakiensis Nunoura et al. 2002 T. subterraneus Spanevello et al. 2002

References

1. J.P. Euzéby. "Thermaerobacter". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2013-03-20.
2. Sayers; et al. "Thermaerobacter". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2013-03-20.
3. All-Species Living Tree Project."16S rRNA-based LTP release 111 (full tree)" (PDF). Silva Comprehensive Ribosomal RNA Database. Retrieved 2013-03-20.