Order Bdellovibrionales
Warning: In the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature, an arrow (→) only indicates the sequence of valid publication of names and does not mean that the last name in the sequence must be used (see: Introduction).
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Bdellovibrionales Garrity et al. 2006, ord. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Bdellovibrio Stolp and Starr 1963 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Bdellovibrio, type genus of the order; suff. -ales, ending denoting an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Bdellovibrionales, the Bdellovibrio order.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 107. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 1-6.
Effective publication: GARRITY (G.M.), BELL (J.A.) and LILBURN (T.): Order VII. Bdellovibrionales ord. nov. In: D.J. BRENNER, N.R. KRIEG, J.T. STALEY and G. M. GARRITY (editors), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1040.
Validation List no. 107 in IJSEM Online
→ Bdellovibrionales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hahn et al. 2017.
Reference: HAHN, M. W., SCHMIDT, J., KOLL, U., ROHDE, M., VERBARG, S., PITT, A., NAKAI, R., NAGANUMA, T. and LANG, E. 2017. Silvanigrella aquatica gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater lake, description of Silvanigrellaceae fam. nov. and Silvanigrellales ord. nov., reclassification of the order Bdellovibrionales in the class Oligoflexia, reclassification of the families Bacteriovoracaceae and Halobacteriovoraceae in the new order Bacteriovoracales ord. nov., and reclassification of the family Pseudobacteriovoracaceae in the order Oligoflexales. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 2555-2568.
Original article.
