Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.798

Name

Chloroherpeton Gibson et al. 1985

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	Chlorobiaceae Copeland 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Chloroherpeton thalassium Gibson et al. 1985 emend. Hahnke et al. 2016

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 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)
genus Chloroherpeton Gibson et al. 1985

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 Chloroherpeton Gibson et al. 1985. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.798.

Source File

10.1601/tx.798.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 29, 2009.

References

Gibson J, Pfennig N, Waterbury JB. Chloroherpeton thalassium gen. nov. et spec. nov., a non-filamentous, flexing and gliding green sulfur bacterium. Arch Microbiol 1984; 138:96-101. [PubMed].