Haloplasma
| Haloplasma contractile | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Tenericutes |
| Class: | Mollicutes |
| Order: | Haloplasmatales Rainey, da Costa, Antunes & Huber, 2008[1][2] |
| Family: | Haloplasmataceae Rainey, da Costa, Antunes & Huber, 2008[1] |
| Genus: | Haloplasma Antunes, Rainey, da Costa & Huber, 2008[1] |
| Species: | H. contractile |
| Binomial name | |
| Haloplasma contractile Antunes, Rainey, da Costa & Huber, 2008[1] | |
Haloplasma contractile is a halophilic, cell wall-less bacterium. It is the only known representative of a deep lineage, and is classified in its own family (Haloplasmataceae) and order (Haloplasmatales), in the class Mollicutes.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 André Antunes, Fred A. Rainey, Gerhard Wanner, Marco Taborda, Jürgen Pätzold, M. Fernanda Nobre, Milton S. da Costa & Robert Huber (2008). "A new lineage of halophilic, wall-less, contractile bacteria from a brine-filled deep of the Red Sea". Journal of Bacteriology 190 (10): 3580–3587. doi:10.1128/JB.01860-07. PMC 2394993. PMID 18326567.
- ↑ J. P. Euzéby. "Order Haloplasmatales". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature.
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