Ther.mo.to.ma'cu.lum. Gr. fem. n.
thermê
heat; L. neut. n.
tomaculum
, a kind of sausage; N.L. neut. n.
Thermotomaculum
, a sausage‐shaped thermophile.
Acidobacteria / Holophagae / Thermotomaculales / Thermotomaculaceae / Thermotomaculum
Gram‐stain‐negative, strictly anaerobic, long rods. Cells occur singly, as a group of 3–4 cells in a chain‐like structure, or as aggregates of up to 40–50 cells. Nonmotile. Strictly heterotrophic. Capable of fermentative growth on complex organic substrates such as yeast extract and tryptone peptone. Thermophilic and neutrophilic. The major fatty acids are iso‐C
15
:0
and iso‐C
17
:0
. The major quinones are menaquinone‐7 and ‐8. A member of the phylum
Acidobacteria
, the class
Holophagae
, the order
Thermotomaculales
, and the family
Thermotomaculaceae
. The known habitat is deep‐sea hydrothermal fields.
DNA G + C content (mol%)
: 51.6 (HPLC).
Type species
:
Thermotomaculum hydrothermale
Izumi, Nunoura, Miyazaki, Mino, Toki, Takai, et al. 2017, 4292
VP
(Effective publication: Izumi, Nunoura, Miyazaki, Mino, Toki, Takai, et al. 2012, 251).