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Phylogenetic and phenotypic evidence demonstrates the taxonomic heterogeneity of the genus Thermobacteroides and indicates a close relationship between Thermobacteroides acetoethylicus and members of the genus Thermoanaerobacter. Since T. acetoethylicus is the type species of Thermobacteroides, its removal invalidates the genus. As a consequence, the remaining species Thermobacteroides proteolyticus is proposed as the type species of the new genus Coprothermobacter gen. nov., as Coprothermobacter proteolyticus comb. nov.
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