The ''Acidimicrobiia'' are a class of
Actinomycetota
The Actinomycetota (or Actinobacteria) are a diverse phylum of Gram-positive bacteria with high GC content. They can be terrestrial or aquatic. They are of great importance to land flora because of their contributions to soil systems. In soil t ...
, in which three families, eight genera, and nine species have been described, ''
Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans
''Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans'' is a bacterium, the type species of its genus. It is a ferrous-iron-oxidizing, moderately thermophilic and acidophilic bacterium. A complete genome
A genome is all the genetic information of an organism. ...
'' is the
type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
of the order.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the
List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) is an online database that maintains information on the naming and taxonomy of prokaryotes, following the taxonomy requirements and rulings of the International Code of Nomenclatu ...
(LPSN)
and
National Center for Biotechnology Information
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(NCBI).
Genera incertae sedis
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Acidimicrobiales
The ''Acidimicrobiia'' are a class of Actinomycetota, in which three families, eight genera, and nine species have been described, ''Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans'' is the type species of the order.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is bas ...
** ''
Acidithiomicrobium''
Davis-Belmar & Norris 2009
** "
Salinilacustritrichaceae"
Gao et al. 2024
*** "''
Salinilacustrithrix''"
Gao et al. 2024
** "
Microtrichaceae"
*** "''Candidatus''
Limnosphaera"
Kim, Kang & Cho 2017
See also
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List of bacteria genera
This article lists the genera of the bacteria
Bacteria (; : bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one Cell (biology), biological cell. They constitute a large domain (biology), domain of Prokaryote, ...
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List of bacterial orders
This article lists the orders of the Bacteria. The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
and the phylogeny is based on 16 ...
References
Actinomycetota
Monotypic bacteria classes
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