Thermoanaerobacter
Thermoanaerobacter is a genus in the phylum Bacillota. 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; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun, bacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Thermoanaerobacter, rod which grows in the absence of air at elevated temperatures.
Species
The genus contains 15 species, namelyT. acetoethylicus Rainey and Stackebrandt 1993 This species, formerly known as Thermobacteroides acetoethylicus, used to be the type species of Thermobacteroides, but was transferred over to the genus Thermoanaerobacter, while the other member of the genus Thermobacteroides, Thermobacteroides proteolyticus was reclassified as Coprothermobacter proteolyticusT. brockii Lee et al. 1993 this species was previously known as Thermoanaerobium brockiiT. ethanolicus Wiegel and Ljungdahl 1982- "T. inferii" Orlygsson & Beck 2007T. italicus Kozianowski et al. 1998
- "T. keratinophilus" Riesen & Antranikian 2001T. kivui Collins et al. 1994 This species used to be known as Acetogenium kivui before being transferred in this genus T. mathranii Larsen et al. 1998 T. pentosaceus Tomás, Karakashev & Angelidaki 2013T. pseudethanolicus Onyenwoke et al. 2007 T. siderophilus Slobodkin et al. 1999 T. sulfurigignens Lee et al. 2007 T. sulfurophilus Bonch-Osmolovskaya 1998 T. thermocopriae Collins et al. 1994 This species was formerly known as Clostridium thermocopriaeT. thermohydrosulfuricus Lee et al. 1993, this species also used to be Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricumT. uzonensis Wagner et al. 2008 T. wiegelii Cook et al. 1996