| Cross Index | Thioploca |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Sheathed heterotrophs and Nonphotosynthetic, Nonfruiting Gliding Bacteria |
| Compare | Herpetosiphon, Thioploca and Thiothrix
nivea which also
have sheaths are a lso included in Nonphotosynthetic,
Nonfruiting Gliding Bacteria in
the non fruiting section. The genus Lyngbya which is one of the cyanobacteria also has
a sheath. Sheathed Heterotrophs : Clonothrix fusca Crenothrix polyspora, Haliscomenobacter hydrossis, Leptothrix, Lieskeella bifida Phragmidiothrix multiseptata Sphaerotilus natans , Thioploca, Thiothrix nivea, Herpetosiphon |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Thioploca |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | |
| Morphology | Flexible, uniseriate filaments made up of numerous cells, generally with numerous sulfur inclusions, occur in parallel or braided fascicles, enclosed by a common sheath of variable width. The number of filaments within a sheath is variable. Within one sheath, filaments may be of fairly uniform or of greatly differing diameters The long filaments are of uniform diameter; their terminal segments may be tapered or rounded |
| Motility | Individual filaments show independent gliding movement, and they may emerge from the end of or from breaks in the sheath. |
| Specialized structures | The sheath is frequently encrusted with detritus |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | Not isolated in pure culture. |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Thioploca |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
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| ENVIRONMENTAL |
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| Genome | Thioploca |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Thioploca |
| First citation | Lauterborn, R. 1907. Eine neue Gattung der Schwefelbakterien (Thioploca schmidlei nov. gen. nov. spec.) Ber. Dtsch. Bot. Ges. 25:238-242 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2101 S. Maier |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 492 |
| References |