Abstract
Thi.o.ha.lo.bac.ter.al'es N.L. masc. n.
Thiohalobacter
, the type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. ‐
ales
, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n.
Thiohalobacterales
, the order of the genus
Thiohalobacter
.
The order
Thiohalobacterales
accommodates obligately chemolithoautotrophic aerobic bacteria utilizing inorganic sulfur compounds as the energy source and assimilating CO
2
via the Calvin–Benson–Bassham cycle. The order is a deeply branching member of the
Gammaproteobacteria
and consists of two families
Thiohalobacteraceae
and
Thiogranaceae,
both of which include one genus. The order‐level status was established by phylogenomic analysis based on the Genome Taxonomy DataBase classification.
Type genus
:
Thiohalobacter
Sorokin et al. 2010
VP
.
Taxonomic and Nomenclature Notes
According to the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN), the taxonomic status of the order
Thiohalobacterales
is: correct name (last update, February 2025)
*
.
LPSN classification:
Bacteria
/
Pseudomonadati
/
Pseudomonadota
/
Gammaproteobacteria
/
Thiohalobacterales
The order
Thiohalobacterales
can also be recovered in the Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB) as
o__Thiohalobacterales
(version v220)
**
.
GTDB classification:
d__Bacteria
/
p__Pseudomonadota
/
c__Gammaproteobacteria
/
o__Thiohalobacterales
*
Meier‐Kolthoff
et al. (
2022
).
Nucleic Acids Res
,
50
,
D801
–
D807
; DOI:
10.1093/nar/gkab902
**
Parks
et al. (
2022
).
Nucleic Acids Res
,
50
,
D785
–
D794
; DOI:
10.1093/nar/gkab776