Chloroflexi
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Translingual
Etymology
New Latin, plural of Chloroflexus, the first genus in the group to be discovered
Proper noun
Chloroflexi
- green non-sulfur bacteria
- A taxonomic phylum within the subkingdom Posibacteria – now Chloroflexota.
- A taxonomic class within the phylum Chloroflexota – now Chloroflexia.
Usage notes
- Circumscription of the phylum is uncertain, with possibly only classes Chloroflexia and Thermomicrobia belonging in the phylum
Synonyms
- (phylum): Chlorobacteria, Chloroflexota
Hypernyms
- (phylum): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Posibacteria – subkingdom
Hyponyms
- (phylum): Anaerolineae, Caldilineae, Chloroflexia, Dehalococcoidetes, Ktedonobacteria, Thermomicrobia – classes
- (class): Chloroflexales, Herpetosiphonales – orders
References
Chloroflexi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Chloroflexi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies - Chloroflexi at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI
