Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4358

Name

Heliobacteriaceae Asao and Madigan 2010

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019

Members

genus	Heliobacterium Gest and Favinger 1985 emend. Kyndt et al. 2021
genus	Heliobacillus Beer-Romero and Gest 1998
genus	Heliomicrobium Kyndt et al. 2021
genus	Heliomonas Asao et al. 2012
genus	Heliophilum Ormerod et al. 1996
genus	Heliorestis Bryantseva et al. 2000 emend. Bryantseva et al. 2000

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
family Heliobacteriaceae Asao and Madigan 2010

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the family Heliobacteriaceae Asao and Madigan 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4358.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4358.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 5, 2021.

References

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Bryantseva IA, Gorlenko VM, Kompantseva EI, Achenbach LA, Madigan MT. Heliorestis daurensis, gen. nov. sp. nov., An alkaliphilic rod-to-coiled-shaped phototrophic heliobacterium from a siberian soda lake. Arch Microbiol 1999; 172:167-174. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050756 [PubMed].
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Beer-Romero P, Gest H. Heliobacillus mobilis, a peritrichously flagellated anoxyphototroph containing bacteriochlorophyll g. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1987; 41:109-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1987.tb02179.x.
Kyndt JA, Montano Salama D, Meyer TE, Imhoff JF. Phylogenetic relationship of phototrophic heliobacteria and systematic reconsideration of species and genus assignments based on genome sequences of eight species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004729 [PubMed].