Thermicanus

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Thermicanus

| domain = Bacteria

| regnum = Bacillati

| phylum = Bacillota

| classis = Bacilli

| ordo = Thermicanales

| familia = Thermicanaceae

| genus = Thermicanus

| genus_authority = Gößner et al. 2000{{cite web |author=A.C. Parte |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/thermicanus |title=Thermicanus |access-date=2025-02-28 |publisher=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) |display-authors=et al.}}

| type_species = Thermicanus aegyptius

| type_species_authority =Gößner et al. 2000

| subdivision_ranks = Species{{cite web |author=C.L. Schoch |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=94008&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock |title=Thermicanus |access-date=2025-02-28 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database |display-authors=et al.}}

| subdivision =

• T. aegyptius

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Thermicanus is a genus of bacteria from the order Bacillales.[https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/94008 uniProt] Up to now, only one species of this genus is known (Thermicanus aegyptius).{{cite journal|last1=Gössner|first1=AS|last2=Devereux|first2=R|last3=Ohnemüller|first3=N|last4=Acker|first4=G|last5=Stackebrandt|first5=E|last6=Drake|first6=HL|title=Thermicanus aegyptius gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from oxic soil, a fermentative microaerophile that grows commensally with the thermophilic acetogen Moorella thermoacetica.|journal=Applied and Environmental Microbiology|date=November 1999|volume=65|issue=11|pages=5124–33|doi=10.1128/AEM.65.11.5124-5133.1999|pmid=10543831|pmc=91689}}