Bacteriovoracaceae

Bacteriovoracaceae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bdellovibrionota
Class: Bacteriovoracia
Order: Bacteriovoracales
Family: Bacteriovoracaceae
Davidov & Jurkevitch 2004
Genus[1]
Synonyms
  • Halobacteriovoraceae corrig. Koval, Williams & Stine 2015
  • Peredibacteraceae Pineiro, Williams & Stine 2008

Bacteriovoracaceae is a family of gram-negative, comma-shaped bacteria. All members have a two-part life cycle consisting of a free-living motile "attack phase" and a "predatory phase" that lives in the periplasm of other gram-negative bacteria. Bacteriovoracaceae are found in freshwater and in the soil.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference LPSN was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Koval, S. F.; Williams, H. N.; Stine, O. C. (2015). "Reclassification of Bacteriovorax marinus as Halobacteriovorax marinus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Bacteriovorax litoralis as Halobacteriovorax litoralis comb. nov.; description of Halobacteriovoraceae fam. nov. in the class Deltaproteobacteria". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65 (Pt 2): 593–597. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.070201-0. PMC 4811658. PMID 25406234.