Green sulfur bacteria
Phylum of 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
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| Class: | Chlorobia
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| Order: | Chlorobiales
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| Family: | Chlorobiaceae
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| Genera | |
| Chlorobium Ancalochloris Chloroherpeton Clathrochloris Pelodictyon | |
