Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7780

Name

Parachlamydiaceae Everett et al. 1999

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	Parachlamydiales Gupta et al. 2016

Members

genus	Parachlamydia Everett et al. 1999
genus	Mesochlamydia Corsaro et al. 2013
genus	Metachlamydia Corsaro et al. 2010
genus	Neochlamydia Horn et al. 2001
genus	Protochlamydia Horn 2010

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 Parachlamydiales Gupta et al. 2016
family Parachlamydiaceae Everett et al. 1999

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 Parachlamydiaceae Everett et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7780.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7780.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 24, 2018.

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