Moorella (bacterium)

Not to be confused with Moorella (fungus) or Moorella (wasp).

Moorella is a genus of bacteria belonging to the phylum Bacillota.^[3]

Moorella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Moorellales
Family:	Moorellaceae
Genus:	Moorella Collins et al. 1994 non Rao & Rao 1964[1]
Type species
Moorella thermoacetica (Fontaine et al. 1942) Collins et al. 1994
Species[2]
M. caeni "M. carbonis" M. glycerini M. humiferrea M. mulderi "M. perchloratireducens" M. stamsii M. sulfitireducens M. thermoacetica M. thermoautotrophica

These bacteria are thermophilic, anaerobic and endospore-forming and many species of this genus have been isolated from hot springs. Some of these species were formerly included within the genus Clostridium, but after a taxonomic rearrangement of the class Clostridia, a phylogenetically distinct genus was identified, which was named Moorella in honor of the American microbiologist W.E.C. Moore.^[3]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[2]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[4][5][6]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[7][8][9]
Moorella M. caeni Santaella, Sousa & Stams 2023 M. thermoacetica (Fontaine et al. 1942) Collins et al. 1994 M. glycerini Slobodkin et al. 1997 M. mulderi Balk et al. 2005 M. stamsii Alves et al. 2013 M. humiferrea Nepomnyashchaya et al. 2012 M. sulfitireducens Slobodkina et al. 2023	Moorella M. thermoacetica M. humiferrea M. sulfitireducens M. glycerini M. mulderi M. stamsii

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera