Opitutaceae
{{Short description|Family of bacteria}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name =
| taxon = Opitutaceae
| authority = Choo et al. 2007
| subdivision_ranks = Species{{cite journal |title=Opitutaceae |website=www.uniprot.org |url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/134623}}
| subdivision =
- "Ca. Didemniditutus"
- Cephaloticoccus
- Ereboglobus
- Geminisphaera
- Horticoccus
- "Lacunisphaera"
- Nibricoccus
- Oleiharenicola
- Opitutus
- Rariglobus
- "Ca. Synoicihabitans"
}}
The Opitutaceae are a Gram-negative and chemoheterotrophic order of the domain Bacteria.{{cite journal |title=Taxonomy of the order Opitutales Choo et al. 2007 |year=2015 |doi=10.1601/tx.14028|last1=Parker |first1=Charles Thomas |last2=Garrity |first2=George M. |editor-first1=Charles Thomas |editor-first2=George M |editor-last1=Parker |editor-last2=Garrity }}{{cite book |last1=Parte |first1=Aidan |last2=Krieg |first2=Noel R. |last3=Ludwig |first3=Wolfgang |last4=Whitman |first4=William B. |last5=Hedlund |first5=Brian P. |last6=Paster |first6=Bruce J. |last7=Staley |first7=James T. |last8=Ward |first8=Naomi |last9=Brown |first9=Daniel |title=Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 4: The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes |date=4 February 2011 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-0-387-68572-4 |page=820 |language=en}} Opitutaceae bacteria were isolated from soil and coastal marine springs.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN){{cite web | author=J.P. Euzéby | url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/family/opitutaceae | title=Opitutaceae | access-date=2022-09-09 | publisher=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)}} and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI){{cite web |author = Sayers| url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=134623&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock |title=Opitutaceae |access-date=2022-09-09 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database |display-authors=et al.}}
See also
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