Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7765

Name

Chlamydiaceae Rake 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sachse et al. 2015

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	Chlamydiales Storz and Page 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2015

Members

genus	Chlamydia Jones et al. 1945 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sachse et al. 2015
genus	Amphibiichlamydia Martel et al. 2012
genus	Chlamydophila Everett et al. 1999
genus	Clavochlamydia Karlsen et al. 2008
genus	Miyagawanella Brumpt 1938

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 Chlamydiota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
class Chlamydiia (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Horn 2016 emend. Gupta et al. 2015
order Chlamydiales Storz and Page 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2015
family Chlamydiaceae Rake 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sachse et al. 2015

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 Chlamydiaceae Rake 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sachse et al. 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7765.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7765.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 21, 2019.

References

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Everett KDE, Bush RM, Andersen AA. Emended description of the order Chlamydiales, proposal of Parachlamydiaceae fam. nov. and Simkaniaceae fam. nov., each containing one monotypic genus, revised taxonomy of the family Chlamydiaceae, including a new genus and five new species, and standards for the identification of organisms. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:415-440. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-2-415 [PubMed].
Martel A, Adriaensen C, Sharifian-Fard M, Vandewoestyne M, Deforce D, Favoreel H, Bergen K, Spitzen-van der Sluijs A, Devisscher S, Adriaens T, Louette G, Baert K, Hyatt A, Crameri S, Haesebrouck F, Pasmans F. The novel 'Candidatus Amphibiichlamydia ranarum' is highly prevalent in invasive exotic bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus). EMIR 2013; 5:105-108. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00359.x [PubMed].
Karlsen M, Nylund A, Watanabe K, Helvik JV, Nylund S, Plarre H. Characterization of 'Candidatus Clavochlamydia salmonicola': an intracellular bacterium infecting salmonid fish. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:208-218. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01445.x [PubMed].