Firmicutes

See also: firmicutes

Translingual

Clostridium perfringens

Etymology

From Latin firmus (“strong”) + cutis (“skin”).

Proper noun

Firmicutes

A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Bacteria – very many bacteria, mostly Gram-positive, now superseded by Bacillota.

Usage notes

Now superseded by the term Bacillota in the NCBI Taxonomy.

Synonyms

(phylum): Bacillota

Hypernyms

(phylum): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Posibacteria - subkingdom

Hyponyms

(phylum): Bacilli, Clostridia, Erysipelotricha, Negativicutes, Thermolithobacteria (classes)

See also

Culicoidibacteria
Limnochordia

References

Firmicutes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Firmicutes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Firmicutes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Firmicutes at Encyclopedia of Life
Firmicutes at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Firmicutes at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
Firmicutes at the Tree of Life Web Project
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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