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Acidimicrobiia

The Acidimicrobiia are a class of Actinomycetota, in which three families, eight genera, and nine species have been described, Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans is the type species of the order.

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Acidimicrobiia
Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Norris 20133
Class: Acidimicrobiia
Stackebrandt et al. 199712
Families4
  • Acidimicrobiales
  • "Actinomarinales"
    • "Actinomarinaceae"
  • "Spongiisociales"
    • "Benthobacteraceae"
    • "Spongiisociaceae"
Synonyms
  • Acidimicrobiidae Rainey & Ward-Rainey 1997
  • "Actinomarinidae" Ghai et al. 2013

The Acidimicrobiia are a class of Actinomycetota, in which three families, eight genera, and nine species have been described, Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans is the type species of the order.1

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)2 and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).4

MLST based phylogeny of 30 proteins.5 16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024678
Acidimicrobiales
Acidimicrobiia
Iamiaceae

Aquihabitans

Iamia

Actinomarinicola

Rhabdothermincola

Acidimicrobiales
120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS22691011
Acidimicrobiia
"Actinomarinales"
"Actinomarinaceae"

Ca. "Actinomarina" Ghai et al. 2013

"Spongiisociales"
"Spongiisociaceae"

Ca. "Spongiisocius" Nguyen 2022

"Benthobacteraceae"

Ca. "Benthobacter" Silva-Solar et al. 2024 [JAHEEL01]

Ca. "Hadalibacter" Silva-Solar et al. 2024 [B3-G11]

Acidimicrobiales
UBA8190

Aciditerrimonas Itoh et al. 2011

Acidimicrobiaceae

Acidithrix Jones & Johnson 2022

Ferrithrix Johnson et al. 2009

Ferrimicrobium Johnson et al. 2009

Acidimicrobium Clark & Norris 1996

Ilumatobacteraceae

Desertimonas Asem et al. 2018

Ilumatobacter Matsumoto et al. 2009

Iamiaceae

Aquihabitans Jin et al. 2013

Iamia Kurahashi et al. 2009

"Rhabdothermincolaceae"

Rhabdothermincola Liu et al. 2021

"Actinomarinicolaceae"

Actinomarinicola He et al. 2020

"Poriferisodalaceae"

"Ca. Poriferisodalis" Nguyen 2022

"Aldehyrespiratoraceae"

"Ca. Aldehyrespirator" Nguyen 2022

"Hopanoidivoracaceae"

"Ca. Hopanoidivorans" Nguyen 2022

Bin134

"Ca. Poriferisocius" Nguyen 2022

"Microtrichaceae"

"Dermatobacter" Jo et al. 2023

"Ca. Neomicrothrix" corrig. Blackall et al. 1996
["Ca. Microthrix" Blackall et al. 1996 non Ragonot 1888]

Genera incertae sedis

  • Acidimicrobiales
    • Acidithiomicrobium Davis-Belmar & Norris 2009
    • Acidimicrobiaceae
      • Acidiferrimicrobium González et al. 2020
    • Iamiaceae
      • Actinospongiicola corrig. Huang et al. 2026
    • "Salinilacustritrichaceae" Gao et al. 2024
      • "Salinilacustrithrix" Gao et al. 2024
    • "Microtrichaceae"
      • "Candidatus Limnosphaera" Kim, Kang & Cho 2017
See also

See also

References

References

  1. Stackebrandt, E.; Rainey, F. A.; Ward-Rainey, N. L. (1997-04-01). "Proposal for a New Hierarchic Classification System, Actinobacteria classis nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47 (2): 479–491. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-479. ISSN 0020-7713.
  2. Acidimicrobiia in LPSN; Freese, H. M.; Meier-Kolthoff, J. P.; Sardà Carbasse, J.; Afolayan, A. O.; Göker, M. (29 October 2025). "TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity". Nucleic Acids Research. 53: D1–D12. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaf1110.
  3. Norris PR (2012). "Class II. Acidimicrobiia class. nov.". In Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, Trujillo ME, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. Vol. 5 (The Actinobacteria), part B (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. p. 1968.
  4. C.L. Schoch; et al. "Acidimicrobiia". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
  5. Hu D, Cha G, Gao B. (2018). "A phylogenomic and molecular markers-based analysis of the class Acidimicrobiia". Frontiers in Microbiology. 9: 987. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.00987. PMC 5962788. PMID 29867887.
  6. "The LTP". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
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  8. "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  9. "GTDB release 10-RS226". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
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  11. "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.