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I believe there is a minor contradiction in the scientific classification of Firmicutes. The classification box on the rights lists Firmicutes as a division under the Kingdom bacteria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_classification reserves Division for only members of the Plant Kingdom.

I believe that Firmicutes should be considered a Phylum on par with the Proteobacteria even though Phylum seems to be reserved for the Animal Kingdom. I have considered division to be used exclusively for plants.

Contradiction

Moreover, Firmicutes figures as a phylum in the section on Bacillus subtilis! Googling for Firmicutes reveals more references to it as a phylum than as a division and googling for "Firmicutes phylum" beats googling for "Firmicutes division" 2220 : 46.

Top.Squark 10:58, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

a new type of Firmicutes?

There have been a few articles [1] [2] discussing a species related to Firmicutes that uses radiated water and not sunlight as its food source. It seems like this maybe ought to be added to this article, but I'm not really sure how to incorporate it. TerraFrost 15:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nature magazine Video

I intend to add this Jeffery Gordon reference.

Jeffery Gordon et al, [3] Nature video, 2006. Human Gut Microbes

I got a request from Nearly Headless Nick 13:11, 20 January 2007 (UTC), to discuss it here before trying again to add it to the page.

Mycoplasma

This article lists Mycoplasma (Mollicutes) as part of the Firmicutes, while the Mollicutes and Tenericutes articles, and also other sources like the ribosomal database project lists them as Tenericutes. Anyone know what is correct, or can both be correct? 129.241.85.173 (talk) 11:55, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

I've been trying to find out how "Firmicutes" is correctly pronounced. Most of the sources I have looked at seem unreliable. Is it pronounced firm-eh-cutes or firm-eh-cute-eez? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.58.131.3 (talk) 16:13, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I pronounce it fuhrm'-uh-kyootz' (which I'm guessing is homonymous with your former guess). I'm from Midwest America, though, where "fiddle" and "little" rhyme, so my regional pronunciation of this word may be drastically different from wherever you're from. Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 21:40, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm wondering this too. When someone finds it out, it should be added to the article. 174.28.150.97 (talk) 01:28, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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 I've been trying to find out how "Firmicutes" is correctly pronounced. Most of the sources I have looked at seem unreliable. Is it pronounced firm-eh-cutes or firm-eh-cute-eez?  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/164.58.131.3|164.58.131.3]] ([[User talk:164.58.131.3|talk]]) 16:13, 7 January 2011 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
 :I pronounce it <big>fuhrm'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>'''-uh-kyootz<nowiki>'</nowiki></big> (which I'm guessing is homonymous with your former guess). I'm from Midwest America, though, where "fiddle" and "little" rhyme, so my regional pronunciation of this word may be drastically different from wherever you're from. [[User:Bob the Wikipedian|Bob the Wikipedian]] <sup>([[User talk:Bob the Wikipedian|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Bob the Wikipedian|contribs]]) </sup> 21:40, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
+I'm wondering this too. When someone finds it out, it should be added to the article. [[Special:Contributions/174.28.150.97|174.28.150.97]] ([[User talk:174.28.150.97|talk]]) 01:28, 19 December 2011 (UTC)