Firmicutes
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Clostridium perfringens
See also: firmicutes
Translingual
Etymology
From Latin firmus (“strong”) + cutis (“skin”).
Proper noun
Firmicutes
- A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Bacteria – very many bacteria, mostly Gram-positive, now superseded by Bacillota.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Now superseded by the term Bacillota in the NCBI Taxonomy.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
References
Firmicutes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Firmicutes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Firmicutes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - 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
