Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus Rainey et al., 1995
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Firmicutes
- class
- Clostridia
- order
- Thermoanaerobacterales
- family
- Thermoanaerobacterales
- genus
- Caldicellulosiruptor
- species
- Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus
Abstract
Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus is a species of thermophilic, anaerobic cellulolytic bacterium. It was isolated from a piece of wood floating in the flow from a freshwater thermal spring in New Zealand in 1987, and tentatively named Caldocellum saccharolyticum. In 1994, the isolate was more thoroughly characterized physiologically, and classified to a new genus, Caldicellusiruptor, based on 16S RNA sequence. It is the type species, and more thoroughly studied member of its genus.