Turicibacter is a genus in the Bacillota phylum of bacteria that has most commonly been found in the guts of animals.

[1] The genus is named after the city in which it was first isolated from the blood of a human, Zurich (Latin = Turicum), Switzerland.

[2] The position of Turicibacter within the Bacillota could not be resolved using 16S rRNA gene-based analyses.

[3] In a tree built using a concatenated protein alignment containing data from two draft Turicibacter genomes, the group was placed at the base of the class Bacilli.

[4] Later analyses that also included amino acid sequences predicted by a complete Turicibacter genome came to the same conclusion.