Translingual

Proper noun

Chromatiales

1. A taxonomic order within the class Gammaproteobacteria – the purple sulfur bacteria.

Hypernyms

• (order): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom; Proteobacteria - phylum; Gammaproteobacteria - class

Hyponyms

• (order): Chromatiaceae, Ectothiorhodospiraceae, Granulosicoccaceae, Halothiobacillaceae, Thioalkalispiraceae, Wenzhouxiangellaceae, Woeseisaceae - families

References

• 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521