Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.17948

Name

Prochlorotrichaceae Burger-Wiersma et al. 1989

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	Prochlorales (ex Lewin 1977) Florenzano et al. 1986

Members

genus	Prochlorothrix Burger-Wiersma et al. 1989 emend. McNeill et al. 2006

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 Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 2006
class Photobacteria Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
subclass Oxyphotobacteriae Gibbons and Murray 1978
order Prochlorales (ex Lewin 1977) Florenzano et al. 1986
family Prochlorotrichaceae Burger-Wiersma et al. 1989

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 Prochlorotrichaceae Burger-Wiersma et al. 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.17948.

Source File

10.1601/tx.17948.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 2, 2018.

References

Burger-Wiersma T, Stal LJ, Mur LR. Prochlorothrix hollandica gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous oxygenic photoautotrophic procaryote containing chlorophylls a and b: Assignment to Prochlororales Florenzano, Balloni, and Materassi 1986, with emendation of the ordinal description. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:250-257. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-39-3-250.