Firmicutes

The Firmicutes (Laitin: firmus, strang, an cutis, skin, referrin tae the cell wall) are a phylum o bacteria, maist o which hae Gram-positive cell wall structur.^[3]

Firmicutes
Bacillus subtilis, Gram-stained
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
(unranked):	Terrabacteria
Phylum:	Firmicutes Gibbons and Murray 1978,[1] Murray, 1984[2]
Clesses
Bacilli Bacillales Lactobacillales Mollicutes Erysipelotrichia Erysipelotrichales Clostridia Clostridiales Halanaerobiales Natranaerobiales Thermoanaerobacterales Negativicutes Selenomonadales Thermolithobacteria
Synonyms
Endospora Endobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002 "Endobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998 "Mollifirmicutes" Mollicutes Edward & Freundt 1967 Mollicutaeota Oren et al. 2015 "Halanaerobiaeota" Tenericutes Murray 1984

References

1. Gibbons, N. E. & Murray, R. G. E. 1978. Proposals concerning the higher taxa of bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 28:1–6, (PDF)
2. Murray, R. G. E. (1984). The higher taxa, or, a place for everything...?. In: N. R. Krieg & J. G. Holt (ed.) Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, vol. 1, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, p. 31–34.
3. "Firmicutes" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary