Green sulfur bacteria
The green sulfur bacteria are a family of obligately anaerobic photoautotrophic bacteria. Most closely related to the distant Bacteroidetes, they are accordingly assigned their own phylum.
| Green sulfur bacteria | |
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| Green sulfur bacteria in a Winogradsky column | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | |
| Phylum: | Chlorobi group |
| Class: | Chlorobia |
| Order: | Chlorobiales |
| Family: | Chlorobiaceae |
| Genera | |
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Chlorobium
Ancalochloris
Chloroherpeton
Clathrochloris
Pelodictyon
Prostheochloris | |
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