The Acidithiobacillales are an order of bacteria within the class ''

Acidithiobacillia Acidithiobacillia is a class of the "''Pseudomonadota''". Its type order, the '' Acidithiobacillales'', was formerly classified within the ''Gammaproteobacteria'', and comprises two families of sulfur-oxidising autotroph An autotroph or prim ...

'' and comprises the genera ''Acidithiobacillus'' and ''Thermithiobacillus''. Originally, both were included in the genus ''

Thiobacillus ''Thiobacillus'' is a genus of Gram-negative Betaproteobacteria. ''Thiobacillus thioparus'' is the type species of the genus, and the type strain thereof is the StarkeyT strain, isolated by Robert Starkey in the 1930s from a field at Rutgers Un ...

'', but they are not related to the type species, which belongs to the ''

Betaproteobacteria Betaproteobacteria are a class of Gram-negative bacteria, and one of the eight classes of the phylum Pseudomonadota (synonym Proteobacteria). The ''Betaproteobacteria'' are a class comprising over 75 genera and 400 species of bacteria. Togeth ...

''.Kelly (D.P.) and Wood (A.P.): ''Reclassification of some species of Thiobacillus to the newly designated genera Acidithiobacillus gen. nov., Halothiobacillus gen. nov. and Thermithiobacillus gen. nov.'' In: ''International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2000, 50, 511-516.''

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Acidithiobacillales
LPSN List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature Acidithiobacillia Acidophiles {{gammaproteobacteria-stub