''Sphingobacteriia'' is a taxonomic class composed of a single order of environmental

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 among ...

that are capable of producing

sphingolipid Sphingolipids are a class of lipids containing a backbone of sphingoid bases, a set of aliphatic amino alcohols that includes sphingosine. They were discovered in brain extracts in the 1870s and were named after the mythological sphinx because ...

s. The earlier name Sphingibacteria was changed in 2011.

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Taxonomy at LPSNNCBINamesForLifeUniProt
Bacteroidota Bacteria classes {{Sphingobacteriia-stub