Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.780

Name

Chlorobiaceae Copeland 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Chlorobiales Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

genus	Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff 2003
genus	Ancalochloris Gorlenko and Lebedeva 1971 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus	Chlorobaculum Imhoff 2003
genus	Chloroherpeton Gibson et al. 1985
genus	Pelodictyon Lauterborn 1913 emend. Pfennig and Trüper 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus	Prosthecochloris Gorlenko 1970 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff 2003

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 Chlorobi (sic) Iino et al. 2021
class Chlorobia (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Garrity and Holt 2005
order Chlorobiales Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Chlorobiaceae Copeland 1956 (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 family Chlorobiaceae Copeland 1956 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.780.

Source File

10.1601/tx.780.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 20, 2017.

References

Copeland HF. The Classification of Lower Organisms, First Edition, Volume 1, Pacific Books, Palo Alto, California, 1956, p. 31.
Imhoff JF. Phylogenetic taxonomy of the family Chlorobiaceae on the basis of 16S rRNA and fmo (Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein) gene sequences. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:941-951. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02403-0 [PubMed].