Comamonadaceae

Comamonadaceae
Leptothrix sp. under a light microscope
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Comamonadaceae
Willems et al. 1991
Genera

Acidovorax
Albidiferax
Alicycliphilus
Brachymonas
Caenibacterium
Caenimonas
Caldimonas
Comamonas
Curvibacter
Delftia
Diaphorobacter
Extensimonas
Giesbergeria
Hydrogenophaga
Hylemonella
Ideonella
Kinneretia
Lampropedia
Limnohabitans
Macromonas
Malikia
Oryzisolibacter
Ottowia
Pelomonas
Polaromonas
Pseudoacidovorax
Pseudorhodoferax
Ramlibacter
Rhodoferax
Roseateles
Schlegelella
Simplicispira
Sphaerotilus
Tepidicella
Tepidimonas
Thiomonas
Variovorax
Verminephrobacter
Xenophilus

The Comamonadaceae are a family of the Betaproteobacteria. Like all Pseudomonadota, they are Gram-negative. They are aerobic and most of the species are motile via flagella. The cells are curved rod-shaped.

References

  1. ↑ "List of genera included in families - Comamonadaceae". List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  2. ↑ Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (1 January 2003). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M. (eds.). "Taxonomic Abstract for the genera". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/tx.30792.
  3. ↑ Willems, A.; De Ley, J.; Gillis, M.; Kersters, K. (1991-07-01). "NOTES: Comamonadaceae, a New Family Encompassing the Acidovorans rRNA Complex, Including Variovorax paradoxus gen. nov., comb. nov., for Alcaligenes paradoxus (Davis 1969)". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 41 (3): 445–450. doi:10.1099/00207713-41-3-445. ISSN 0020-7713.
  4. ↑ Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6.