| Caulobacteraceae | |
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| Caulobacter crescentus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Caulobacterales |
| Family: | Caulobacteraceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980) |
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Caulobacteraceae is a family of Pseudomonadota within the alpha subgroup. [1] Like all Pseudomonadota, the Caulobacteraceae are gram-negative. [1] Caulobacteraceae includes the genera Asticcacaulis , Brevundimonas , Phenylobacterium and Caulobacter . [2]
The type species Caulobacter gives its name also to the recently proposed subclass, the Caulobacteridae, which includes the orders Caulobacterales, Parvularculales , Hyphomicrobiales , Rhodobacterales , Rhodospirillales , Sneathiellales , Sphingomonadales , Kiloniellales , Kordiimonadales and controversially the Holosporales . [3]