The Thermodesulfobacteriaceae are a
family
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of
sulfate-reducing bacteria
Sulfate-reducing microorganisms (SRM) or sulfate-reducing prokaryotes (SRP) are a group composed of sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) and sulfate-reducing archaea (SRA), both of which can perform anaerobic respiration utilizing sulfate () as termina ...
.
Phylogeny
Taxonomy
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the
List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
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(LPSN)
and
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* Class Thermodesulfobacteria
Hatchikian, Ollivier & Garcia 2002
** Order Thermodesulfobacteriales
Hatchikian, Ollivier & Garcia 2002
*** Genus "''
Geothermobacterium''"
Kashefi et al. 2002
*** Genus ''
Thermosulfuriphilus''
Slobodkin et al. 2012
*** Family
Thermodesulfatatoraceae Waite et al. 2020
**** Genus ''
Thermodesulfatator''
Moussard et al. 2004
*** Family Thermodesulfobacteriaceae
Hatchikian, Ollivier & Garcia 2002
**** Genus ''
Caldimicrobium''
Miroshnichenko et al. 2009
**** Genus ''
Thermodesulfobacterium''
Zeikus et al. 1995
**** Genus ''
Thermosulfurimonas''
Slobodkin et al. 2012
See also
*
List of bacterial orders
*
List of bacteria genera
References
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Bergey's volume 1
Bacteria classes