Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.554

Name

Chloroflexus aurantiacus Pierson and Castenholz 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Chloroflexus Pierson and Castenholz 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

J-10-fl^T (=ATCC 29366)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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)
species Chloroflexus aurantiacus Pierson and Castenholz 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

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 species Chloroflexus aurantiacus Pierson and Castenholz 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Nouioui et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.554.

Source File

10.1601/tx.554.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 19, 2018.

References

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].