Phycisphaerae

Phycisphaerae is a class of aquatic bacteria Containing a single order Phycisphaerales. They reproduce by budding and are found in samples of algae in marine water.[1] Organisms in this group are spherical[1] and have a holdfast, at the tip of a thin cylindrical extension from the cell body called the stalk, at the nonreproductive end that helps them to attach to each other during budding.

Phycisphaerae
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Planctomycetes
Class:
Phycisphaerae

Fukunaga et al. 2010
Orders
  • Phycisphaerales Fukunaga et al. 2010
  • Tepidisphaerales Kovaleva et al. 2015

References
  1. NITE Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), Chiba, Japan, mikurensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a marine alga, and proposal of Phycisphaeraceae fam. nov., Phycisphaerales ord. nov. and Phycisphaerae classis nov. in the phylum Planctomycetes, August 2009. retrieved 5 December 2015.


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