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
.
Proteobacteria / Gammaproteobacteria / Thiohalobacterales ord. nov.
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
.