Herpetosiphon

Herpetosiphon
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Chloroflexota
Class:	Chloroflexia
Order:	Herpetosiphonales
Family:	Herpetosiphonaceae
Genus:	Herpetosiphon Holt and Lewin 1968
Type species
Herpetosiphon aurantiacus Holt & Lewin 1968
Species [1]
H. aurantiacus H. geysericola H. giganteus H. gulosus H. llansteffanensis

Herpetosiphon is a genus of bacteria in the family Herpetosiphonaceae.

Phylogeny

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024 [2] [3] [4]	120 marker proteins based GTDB release 10-RS226 [5] [6] [7]
H. llansteffanensiscorrig. Livingstone et al. 2019 H. geysericola(Copeland 1936) Lewin 1970 H. giganteus (Soriano 1945) Reichenbach & Golecki 1975 ex Pan et al. 2017 H. aurantiacusHolt & Lewin 1968 H. gulosusPan et al. 2017	H. aurantiacus H. gulosus H. geysericola H. giganteus H. llansteffanensis

See also

• List of bacteria genera
• List of bacterial orders

References

1. Herpetosiphon on lpsn.dsmz.de
2. "The LTP" . Retrieved 10 December 2024.
3. "LTP_all tree in newick format" . Retrieved 10 December 2024.
4. "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
5. "GTDB release 10-RS226". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
6. "bac120_r226.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.
7. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database . Retrieved 1 May 2025.