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Aquificaceae

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The Aquificaceae family are bacteria that live in harsh environmental settings such as hot springs, sulfur pools, and hydrothermal vents. Although they are true bacteria as opposed to the other inhabitants of extreme environments, the Archaea, Aquificaceae genera are an early phylogenetic branch.

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomBacteria
  2. PhylumAquificota
  3. ClassAquificae
  4. OrderAquificales
  5. FamilyAquificaceae
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The Aquificaceae family are bacteria that live in harsh environmental settings such as hot springs, sulfur pools, and hydrothermal vents. Although they are true bacteria as opposed to the other inhabitants of extreme environments, the Archaea, Aquificaceae genera are an early phylogenetic branch.

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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aquificaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.