Firmicutes
See also: firmicutes
Translingual
editEtymology
editFrom Latin firmus (“strong”) + cutis (“skin”).
Proper noun
editFirmicutes
- A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Bacteria – very many bacteria, mostly Gram-positive, now superseded by Bacillota.
Usage notes
editNow superseded by the term Bacillota in the NCBI Taxonomy.
Synonyms
edit- (phylum): Bacillota
Hypernyms
edit- (phylum): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Posibacteria - subkingdom
Hyponyms
edit- (phylum): Bacilli, Clostridia, Erysipelotricha, Negativicutes, Thermolithobacteria (classes)
See also
editReferences
edit- Firmicutes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Firmicutes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Firmicutes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- 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