Chloroflexi

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, plural of Chloroflexus, the first genus in the group to be discovered

Proper noun

Chloroflexi

green non-sulfur bacteria
1. A taxonomic phylum within the subkingdom Posibacteria.
2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Chloroflexi – now Chloroflexia.

Usage notes

Circumscription of the phylum is uncertain, with possibly only classes Chloroflexia and Thermomicrobia belonging in the phylum

Synonyms

(phylum): Chlorobacteria

Hypernyms

(phylum): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Posibacteria - subkingdom

Hyponyms

(phylum): Anaerolineae, Caldilineae, Chloroflexia, Dehalococcoidetes, Ktedonobacteria, Thermomicrobia - classes
(class): Chloroflexales, Herpetosiphonales - orders

References

Chloroflexi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Chloroflexi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Chloroflexi at the Tree of Life Web Project
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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