Holophagales

Holophagales
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Acidobacteria
Class: Holophagae
Order: Holophagales

The order Holophagales (Ho.lo.pha.ga′les) is a member of phylum Acidobacteria and class Holophagae. The bacteria in this order are Gram negative. This order consists of a single family, Holophagaceae, which contains two genera, Holophaga and Geothrix. Each of these genera contains a single species and they are strict anaerobes.[1][2]

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References

  1. Fukunaga, Yukiyo; Ichikawa, Natsuko (2014). "The Class Holophagaceae". In Eugene Rosenberg, Edward F. DeLong, Stephen Lory, Erko Stackebrandt, Fabiano Thompson. The Prokaryotes – Other Major Lineages of Bacteria and The Archaea. pp. 683–687. ISBN 978-3-642-38953-5.
  2. Fukunaga, Y., Kurahashi, M., Yanagi, K., Yokota, A., and Harayama, S. (2008). "Acanthopleuribacter pedis gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from a chiton, and description of Acanthopleuribacteraceae fam. nov., Acanthopleuribacterales ord. nov., Holophagaceae fam. nov., Holophagales ord. nov. and Holophagae classis nov. in the phylum ‘Acidobacteria’". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 58: 2597–2601. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65589-0.
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