HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE KINGDOM PIRELLAE AND ITS SINGLE PHYLUM PIRELLOBACTERIA (BOTH NAMES DERIVED FROM MARGULIS AND SCHWARTZ 1998)
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KINGDOM PIRELLAE LINKS
| This system follows Margulis and Schwartz (1998) and modified by the system of Garrity et al. (2001 and 2003). |
- CLASS PLANCTOMYCETAE
- Members of this class are free-living. These grow by polar growth, some with elaborate internal “organelles”. With a single order.
- ORDER PLANCTOMYCIALES
- Gemmatia, Isosphaera, Pirellula, Pirella, Planctomyces.
- CLASS CHLAMYDIAE
- Members of this class are all parasitic with highly reduced genomes and physiologies.
- ORDER CHLAMYDIALES
- Chlamydia, Chlamydophila, Parachlamydia, Simkania, Waddlia.
| LITERATURE CITED Barnes, R. S. K. 1984b. Kingdom Monera. IN: Barnes, R.S.K., ed. A synoptic classification of living organisms. Sinauer Associates. Sunderland, Mass. Black, J. G. 2002. Microbiology, Principles and Explorations. 5th ed. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York. Brock, T. D., M.T. Madigan, J.M. Martinko, and J. Parker. 1994. Biology of Microorganisms. 7th ed. Prentice Hall. Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Garrity, G. M., M. Winters, and D. Searles. 2001. Bergey’s manual of systematic bacteriology. 2nd ed. Springer-Verlag. New York. Garrity, G. M., J. A. Bell, and T. G. Lilburn. 2003. Taxonomic Outline of the Prokaryotes. Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2nd edition. Release 4.0. Springer-Verlag. New York. pp. 1-397. Margulis, L. and K. Schwartz. 1998. Five kingdoms, an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth. 3rd Edition. W. H. Freeman and Co. New York. Tudge, C. 2000. The Variety of Life, A Survey and a Celebration of all the Creatures That Have Ever Lived. Oxford University Press. New York. |
| By Jack R. Holt. Last revised: 02/09/2012 |
