Firmicutes

See also: firmicutes

Translingual

Clostridium perfringens

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Firmicutes

1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Bacteria – very many bacteria, mostly Gram-positive, now superseded by Bacillota.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Now superseded by the term Bacillota in the NCBI Taxonomy.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