Chloracidobacterium

Chloracidobacterium
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Acidobacteriota
Class: "Acidobacteriia"
Order: Acidobacteriales
Family: Acidobacteriaceae
Genus: "Chloracidobacterium"
Tank and Bryant 2015
Type species
"Chloracidobacterium thermophilum"
Tank and Bryant 2015
Species
  • "C. aggregatum"
  • "C. thermophilum"
  • "C. validum"
Synonyms
  • "Ca. Chloracidobacterium" Bryant et al. 2007

Chloracidobacterium is a genus of the Acidobacteriota. It is currently assigned to the family Acidobacteriaceae, but phylogenetic evidence suggests that it belongs in Blastocatellia.

This is a group of photosynthetic bacteria were discovered in 2007 and their identification extends the number of bacterial phyla that can carry out chlorophyll-based photosynthesis from five to six.

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