Thermicanus aegyptius

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{{Taxobox

| name = Thermicanus aegyptius

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Bacillota

| classis = Bacilli

| ordo = Bacillales

| familia =

| genus = Thermicanus

| binomial = Thermicanus aegyptius

| species = T. aegyptius

| binomial_authority = Gößner et al. 2000[https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/thermicanus LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de]

| type_strain = ATCC 700890, DSM 12793, ET-5b[https://web.archive.org/web/20160310055843/http://www.straininfo.net/taxa/7781;jsessionid=6C71E77818DD797C23F4991421126056.straininfo2 Straininfo of Thermicanus aegyptius]

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Thermicanus aegyptius is a microaerophile and thermophilic bacterium from the genus Thermicanus, which has been isolated from oxic soil in Egypt.Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen [https://www.dsmz.de/catalogues/details/culture/DSM-12793.html]{{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|bibcode=1999ApEnM..65.5124G }}{{cite book|editor-last1=Dürre|editor-first1=Peter|title=Handbook on Clostridia.|date=2005|publisher=CRC Press|location=London|isbn=0-203-48981-0}}[https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/94009 UniProt]