Caulobacteraceae

Caulobacteraceae
	Caulobacter crescentus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Caulobacterales
Family:	Caulobacteraceae; Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980)
Genera
	Aquidulcibacter Cai et al. 2018; Asticcacaulis Poindexter 1964 (Approved Lists 1980); Brevundimonas Segers et al. 1994; Caulobacter Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980); Phenylobacterium Lingens et al. 1985; Terricaulis Vieira et al. 2020;

Caulobacteraceae is a family of Pseudomonadota within the alpha subgroup.^[1] Like all Pseudomonadota, the Caulobacteraceae are gram-negative.^[1] Caulobacteraceae includes the genera Asticcacaulis, Brevundimonas, Phenylobacterium and Caulobacter.^[2]

The type species Caulobacter gives its name also to the recently proposed subclass, the Caulobacteridae, which includes the orders Caulobacterales, Parvularculales, Hyphomicrobiales, Rhodobacterales, Rhodospirillales, Sneathiellales, Sphingomonadales, Kiloniellales, Kordiimonadales and controversially the Holosporales.^[3]

^ ^a ^b Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6.
^ Euzéby, J. P. "List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature". Retrieved March 28, 2014.
^ Ferla, M. P.; Thrash, J. C.; Giovannoni, S. J.; Patrick, W. M. (2013). "New rRNA gene-based phylogenies of the Alphaproteobacteria provide perspective on major groups, mitochondrial ancestry and phylogenetic instability". PLOS ONE. 8 (12): e83383. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083383. PMC 3859672. PMID 24349502.