Ignavibacteriales

The Ignavibacteriales are an order of obligately anaerobic, non-photosynthetic bacteria that are closely related to the green sulfur bacteria.^[2][3]

Ignavibacteriota
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Superphylum:	FCB group
Phylum:	Ignavibacteriota Podosokorskaya et al. 2021[1]
Class:	Ignavibacteria Iino et al. 2010[2]
Order:	Ignavibacteriales Iino et al. 2010[2]
Families
Ignavibacteriaceae Melioribacteraceae
Synonyms
Ignavibacteriota: "Ignavibacteriae" Podosokorskaya et al. 2013 "Ignavibacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015 "Ignavibacteriota" Whitman et al. 2018 Ignavibacteria: "Ignavibacteriia" Cavalier-Smith 2020

Taxonomy

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[4] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[5]

• Family Ignavibacteriaceae Iino et al. 2010
  • Ignavibacterium Iino et al. 2010
    • I. album Iino et al. 2010
• Family Melioribacteraceae Podosokorskaya et al. 2013
  • Melioribacter Podosokorskaya et al. 2013
    • M. roseus Podosokorskaya et al. 2013
  • "Stygiobacter" Podosokorskaya et al. 2023
    • "S. electus" Podosokorskaya et al. 2023

See also

• List of bacteria genera
• List of bacterial orders

References

1. Oren A, Garrity GM (2021). "Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 71 (10): 5056. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.005056. PMID 34694987. S2CID 239887308.
2. Iino T, Mori K, Uchino Y, Nakagawa T, Harayama S, Suzuki K. (2010). "Ignavibacterium album gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic anaerobic bacterium isolated from microbial mats at a terrestrial hot spring and proposal of Ignavibacteria classis nov., for a novel lineage at the periphery of green sulfur bacteria". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 60 (6): 1376–1382. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.012484-0. PMID 19671715.
3. Podosokorskaya OA, Kadnikov VV, Gavrilov SN, Mardanov AV, Merkel AY, Karnachuk OV, Ravin NV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA, Kublanov IV. (2013). "Characterization of Melioribacter roseus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel facultatively anaerobic thermophilic cellulolytic bacterium from the class Ignavibacteria, and a proposal of a novel bacterial phylum Ignavibacteriae". Environ Microbiol. 15 (6): 1759–1771. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12067. PMID 23297868.
4. Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Ignavibacteria". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved June 7, 2021.
5. Sayers; et al. "Ignavibacteriae". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2021-03-20.