Thermothrix

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Thermothrix

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Pseudomonadota

| classis = Betaproteobacteria

| ordo = Burkholderiales

| familia = Burkholderiaceae

| genus = Thermothrix

| genus_authority = Caldwell et al. 1981[http://www.bacterio.net/allnamessz.html bacterio.net] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922200838/http://www.bacterio.net/allnamessz.html |date=2013-09-22 }}

| type_species = Thermothrix thiopara[http://www.bacterio.net/allnamessz.html bacterio.net] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922200838/http://www.bacterio.net/allnamessz.html |date=2013-09-22 }}

| type_species_authority = Caldwell et al. 1976 ex Caldwell et al. 1981

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• T. azorensis
• T. thiopara

}}

Thermothrix is a genus of Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, thermophilic, motile bacteria with a single polar flagellum of the family Burkholderiaceae and class Betaproteobacteria.Genus VIII Thermothrix Caldwell, Caldwell and Laycock 1981, 217 (Effecktive publication: Caldwell, Caldwell and Laycock 1976 1515)