Saprospiraceae

Saprospiraceae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Bacteroidota
Class:	Saprospiria
Order:	Saprospirales
Family:	Saprospiraceae Krieg et al. 2012 [1]
Genera [2]
"Candidatus Aquirestis" Hahn and Schauer 2007 Aureispira Hosoya et al. 2006 "Candidatus Epifloribacter" corrig. Xia et al. 2008 Membranicola Li et al. 2016 " Rubidimonas " Yoon et al. 2012 Saprospira Gross 1911 (Approved Lists 1980)

The family Saprospiraceae is composed of environmental bacteria. ^[3] The members of this family are important to the breakdown of complex organic compounds in the environment. ^[4]

References

1. Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (2010). "Family III. Saprospiraceae fam. nov.". In Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. p. 358.
2. Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Saprospiraceae". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved June 24, 2021.
3. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria) (D.R. Boone and R.W. Castenholz, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York (2001). pp. 465-466.
4. Simon Jon McIlroy; Per Halkjær Nielsen (2014). "The Family Saprospiraceae". In Eugene Rosenberg; Edward F. DeLong; Stephen Lory; Erko Stackebrandt; Fabiano Thompson (eds.). The Prokaryotes: Other Major Lineages of Bacteria and The Archaea. pp. 863–889. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2_138. ISBN   978-3-642-38953-5.