HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE KINGDOM CHLOROFLEXAE AND ITS SINGLE PHYLUM CHLOROFLEXOBACTERIA (BOTH FORMAL NAMES ARE DERIVED FROM GARRITY AND HOLT 2001)

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The Kingdom Chloroflexae has a single phylum, Chloroflexobacteria. This system comes from that of Margulis and Schwartz (1998) with some modifications based on Garrity et al. (2001 and 2003).

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By Jack R. Holt. Last revised: 02/08/2012