Lentisphaerota is a

phylum In biology, a phylum (; plural: phyla) is a level of classification or taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class. Traditionally, in botany the term division has been used instead of phylum, although the International Code of Nomenclature ...

bacteria Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were am ...

closely related to

Chlamydiota The Chlamydiota (synonym Chlamydiae) are a bacterial phylum and class whose members are remarkably diverse, including pathogens of humans and animals, symbionts of ubiquitous protozoa, and marine sediment forms not yet well understood. All of ...

and

Verrucomicrobiota Verrucomicrobiota is a phylum of Gram-negative bacteria that contains only a few described species. The species identified have been isolated from fresh water, marine and soil environments and human faeces. A number of as-yet uncultivated speci ...

. It includes two monotypic orders Lentisphaerales and Victivallales. Phylum members can be

aerobic Aerobic means "requiring air," in which "air" usually means oxygen. Aerobic may also refer to * Aerobic exercise, prolonged exercise of moderate intensity * Aerobics, a form of aerobic exercise * Aerobic respiration, the aerobic process of cel ...

anaerobic Anaerobic means "living, active, occurring, or existing in the absence of free oxygen", as opposed to aerobic which means "living, active, or occurring only in the presence of oxygen." Anaerobic may also refer to: * Anaerobic adhesive, a bonding a ...

and fall under two distinct phenotypes. These phenotypes live within bodies of sea water and were particularly hard to isolate in a pure culture. One phenotype, ''L. marina'', consists of terrestrial gut microbiota from mammals and birds. It was found in the

Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, i ...

. The other phenotype (''L. araneosa'') includes marine microorganisms: sequences from fish and coral microbiomes and

marine sediment Marine sediment, or ocean sediment, or seafloor sediment, are deposits of insoluble particles that have accumulated on the seafloor. These particles have their origins in soil and rocks and have been transported from the land to the sea, mai ...

Phylogeny

The phylogeny based on the work of the

All-Species Living Tree Project The All-Species Living Tree' Project is a collaboration between various academic groups/institutes, such as ARB, SILVA rRNA database project, and LPSN, with the aim of assembling a database of 16S rRNA sequences of all validly published species ...

Taxonomy

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the

List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) is an online database that maintains information on the nomenclature, naming and Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of prokaryotes, following the taxonomy requirements and rulings of the In ...

(LSPN) and the

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(NCBI). * Phylum Lentisphaerota Cho et al. 2021 ** Class Oligosphaeria Qiu et al. 2013 *** Order Oligosphaerales Qiu et al. 2013 **** Family Oligosphaeraceae Qiu et al. 2013 ***** Genus '' Oligosphaera'' Qiu et al. 2013 ****** Species '' Oligosphaera ethanolica'' Qiu et al. 2013 ** Class Lentisphaeria Cho et al. 2012 *** Order Victivallales Cho et al. 2004 **** Family Victivallaceae Derrien et al. 2012 ***** Genus '' Victivallis'' Zoetendal et al. 2003 ****** Species ''

Victivallis vadensis ''Victivallis vadensis'' is a Gram-negative, coccus-shaped, bacteria found in the human digestive tract. It measures approximately 0.5-1.3 micrometers in diameter, is non-motile and chemoorganotrophic, and does not form spores. ''Victivallis vade ...

'' Zoetendal et al. 2003 *** Order Lentisphaerales Cho et al. 2004 **** Family Lentisphaeraceae Cho & Hedlund 2012 ***** Genus '' Lentisphaera'' Cho et al. 2004 emend. Choi et al. 2013 ****** Species '' L. araneosa'' Cho et al. 2004 ****** Species '' L. marina'' Choi et al. 2013 ****** Species "'' L. profunda''" ♠ Notes:
♠ Strain found at the

(NCBI) but not listed in the

(LPSN)

Phylogeny

Taxonomy

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