Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.558

Name

Heliothrix Pierson et al. 1986

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	Roseiflexaceae Gupta et al. 2013

Members

species	Heliothrix oregonensis Pierson et al. 1986

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 Roseiflexineae Gupta et al. 2013
family Roseiflexaceae Gupta et al. 2013
genus Heliothrix Pierson et al. 1986

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 Heliothrix Pierson et al. 1986. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.558.

Source File

10.1601/tx.558.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 12, 2009.

References

Pierson BK, Giovannoni SJ, Stahl DA, Castenholz RW. Heliothrix oregonensis, gen. nov., sp. nov., a phototrophic filamentous gliding bacterium containing bacteriochlorophyll a. Arch Microbiol 1985; 142:164-167. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00447061 [PubMed].