Saprospiraceae

{{Short description|Family of bacteria}}

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| taxon = Saprospiraceae

| authority = Krieg et al. 2012{{cite book |vauthors = Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB | chapter = Family III. Saprospiraceae fam. nov. |veditors= Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB | title = Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology | edition = 2nd | volume = 4 | publisher = Springer | location = New York | year = 2010 | page = 358}}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera{{cite web|vauthors=Euzéby JP, Parte AC |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/family/saprospiraceae |title=Saprospiraceae |access-date=June 24, 2021 |website=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)}}

| subdivision =

• "Candidatus Aquirestis" Hahn and Schauer 2007
• Aureispira Hosoya et al. 2006

• "Candidatus Epifloribacter" corrig. Xia et al. 2008
• Membranicola Li et al. 2016
• "Rubidimonas" Yoon et al. 2012
• Saprospira Gross 1911 (Approved Lists 1980)

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The family Saprospiraceae is composed of environmental bacteria.Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria) (D.R. Boone and R.W. Castenholz, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York (2001). pp. 465-466. The members of this family are important to the breakdown of complex organic compounds in the environment.{{Cite book |author=Simon Jon McIlroy |author2=Per Halkjær Nielsen |chapter=The Family Saprospiraceae |editor=Eugene Rosenberg |editor2=Edward F. DeLong |editor3=Stephen Lory |editor4=Erko Stackebrandt |editor5=Fabiano Thompson |title=The Prokaryotes: Other Major Lineages of Bacteria and The Archaea |date=2014 |pages=863–889 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2_138 |isbn=978-3-642-38953-5 }}