Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.553

Name

Chloroflexus Pierson and Castenholz 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Chloroflexaceae Pierson 2013

Members

species	Chloroflexus aurantiacus Pierson and Castenholz 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Chloroflexus aggregans Hanada et al. 1995
species	Chloroflexus islandicus Gaisin et al. 2017
species	Chloroflexus sp. None 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Chloroflexi (sic) Garrity and Holt 2021 emend. Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt 2004 non Chloroflexi Gupta et al. 2013
class Chloroflexia corrig. Gupta et al. 2013
order Chloroflexales Boone and Castenholz 2013
suborder Chloroflexineae Gupta et al. 2013
family Chloroflexaceae Pierson 2013
genus Chloroflexus Pierson and Castenholz 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 genus Chloroflexus Pierson and Castenholz 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.553.

Source File

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This information was last reviewed on January 31, 2017.

References

Hanada S, Hiraishi A, Shimada K, Matsuura K. Chloroflexus aggregans sp. nov., a filamentous phototrophic bacterium which forms dense cell aggregates by active gliding movement. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:676-681. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-4-676 [PubMed].
Gaisin VA, Kalashnikov AM, Grouzdev DS, Sukhacheva MV, Kuznetsov BB, Gorlenko VM. Chloroflexus islandicus sp. nov., a thermophilic filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium from geyser Strokkur (Iceland). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1381-1386. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001820 [PubMed].
Gupta RS, Chander P, George S. Phylogenetic framework and molecular signatures for the class Chloroflexi and its different clades; proposal for division of the class Chloroflexi class. nov. into the suborder Chloroflexineae subord. nov., consisting of the emended family Oscillochloridaceae and the family Chloroflexaceae fam. nov., and the suborder Roseiflexineae subord. nov., containing the family Roseiflexaceae fam. nov. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 103:99-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-012-9790-3 [PubMed].
Pierson BK, Castenholz RW. A phototrophic gliding filamentous bacterium of hot springs, Chloroflexus aurantiacus, gen. and sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 1974; 100:5-24. [PubMed].
No reference is available 2015