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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 species have been identified in association with eukaryotic hosts including extrusive explosive ectosymbionts of protists and endosymbionts of nematodes from genus Xiphinema, residing in their gametes. The verrucomicrobial bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila is a human intestinal symbiotic bacterium that is considered as a promising probiotic.

Taxonomy
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). • Genus ?"Ca. Epixenosoma" Bauer et al. 2005 • Genus ?"Ca. Nucleicoccus" corrig. Sato et al. 2014 • Genus ?"Ca. Organicella" Williams et al. 2021 • Genus ?"Ca. Rhizospheria" Nunes da Rocha 2010 • Class Opitutia corrig. Choo et al. 2007 • Order Opitutales Choo et al. 2007 • Family Alterococcaceae Min et al. 2023 • Family Cerasicoccaceae Min et al. 2023 • Family Coraliomargaritaceae Min et al. 20232 • Family Intestinicryptomonadaceae corrig. Hitch et al. 2025 ["Merdousiaceae" Pallen, Rodriguez-R & Alikhan 2022] • Family "Moanibacteraceae" Pallen, Rodriguez-R & Alikhan 2022 [UBA2987] • Family Oceanipulchritudinaceae Min et al. 2023 • Family Opitutaceae Choo et al. 2007 • Family Pelagicoccaceae Min et al. 2023 • Family Puniceicoccaceae Choo et al. 2007 • Family "Seribacteraceae" Wilkie & Olrellana 2024 ["Fogupanaceae" Pallen, Rodriguez-R & Alikhan 2022] • Family "Spyradosomataceae" Pallen, Rodriguez-R & Alikhan 2022 [UBA953] • Class Verrucomicrobiia corrig. Hedlund, Gosink & Staley 1998 ["Methylacidiphilae"; "Pedosphaerae" Brewer et al. 2016; Terrimicrobiia corrig. García-López et al. 2020] • Order Limisphaerales Podosokorskaya et al. 2023 ["Pedosphaerales"] • Family Fontisphaeraceae Podosokorskaya et al. 2023 • Family Limisphaeraceae Podosokorskaya et al. 2023 • Family "Pedosphaeraceae" ?Tsitko et al. 2014 • Order Methylacidiphilales Awala et al. 2023 • Family Methylacidiphilaceae Awala et al. 2023 • Order Terrimicrobiales García-López et al. 2020 ["Chthoniobacterales" Sangwan et al. 2004] • Family "Chthoniobacteraceae" Sangwan et al. 2004 • Family Terrimicrobiaceae García-López et al. 2020 • Family "Udaeobacteraceae" Pallen, Rodriguez-R & Alikhan 2022 [UBA10450] • Family "Xiphinematobacteraceae" • Order Verrucomicrobiales Ward-Rainey et al. 1996 • Family Akkermansiaceae Hedlund & Derrien 2012 [Rubritaleaceae Hedlund 2012] • Family "Sulfuriroseicoccus" Feng et al. 2022 {SLCJ01} • Family Verrucomicrobiaceae Ward-Rainey et al. 1996 ==See also==
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