The family Thermodesulfobiaceae according to the

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is located within the order

Thermoanaerobacterales The Thermoanaerobacterales is a polyphyletic order (biology), order of bacteria placed within the polyphyletic class (taxonomy), class Clostridia, and encompassing four families: the Thermoanaerobacteraceae, the Thermodesulfobiaceae, the Thermoan ...

and class

Clostridia The Clostridia are a highly polyphyletic class of Bacillota, including '' Clostridium'' and other similar genera. They are distinguished from the Bacilli by lacking aerobic respiration. They are obligate anaerobes and oxygen is toxic to them ...

. However, according to the All-Species Living Tree Project it lies outside the clade

Bacillota The Bacillota (synonym Firmicutes) are a phylum of bacteria, most of which have Gram-positive cell wall structure. They have round cells, called cocci (singular coccus), or rod-like forms (bacillus). A few Bacillota, such as '' Megasphaera'', ...

and the genus '' Caldanaerovirga'' does not belong to the clade, i.e. Thermodesulfobiaceae is

polyphyletic A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as Homoplasy, homoplasies ...

Phylogeny

This family formerly included two genera ('' Thermodesulfobium'' and '' Coprothermobacter''); however, the taxonomy of this family is under review because the genus '' Coprothermobacter'' was excluded from this family in March 2018, after several genomic analyses confirmed the differences between them. The most recent classification updates are already reported by the

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(NCBI), even though some taxonomy considering former versions of the

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(LPSN), or old releases of 16S rRNA-based tree from

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, All-Species Living Tree Project. may still include it.

References

*Thermodesulfobiaceae {{clostridia-stub

Phylogeny

See also

References