Abstract
”Thermobaculum terrenum” (Botero et al. 2004) is the only species within the proposed genus ”Thermobaculum”. Strain YNP1T represents the only cultivated member of an environmental clone group within the phylum Chloroflexi. Nonconformance to Rule 30(3a) of the Bacteriological Code prevents prevents valid publication of either the species and genus name for this phylogentically isolated bacterium that was cultivated from slightly acidic extreme thermal soil in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (USA). Depending on its final taxonomic allocation, this is probably the third completed genome sequence of a member of the class Thermomicrobia and the seventh “type strain” genome from the phylum Cloroflexi. The 3,101,581 bp long genome with its 2,872 protein-coding and 58 RNA genes is a part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project.