Firmicutes
See also: firmicutes
Translingual
Clostridium perfringens
Etymology
From Latin firmus (“strong”) + cutis (“skin”).
Proper noun
Firmicutes
- A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Bacteria – very many bacteria, mostly Gram-positive.
Synonyms
- (phylum): Bacillota
Hypernyms
- (phylum): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Posibacteria - subkingdom
Hyponyms
- (phylum): Bacilli, Clostridia, Erysipelotricha, Negativicutes, Thermolithobacteria (classes)
References
Firmicutes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Firmicutes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Firmicutes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Firmicutes at Encyclopedia of Life
- 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521