Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Rhizobiales

1. A taxonomic order within the class Alphaproteobacteria – some of the purple non-sulfur bacteria, that are symbiotic on plant roots, and fix nitrogen.

Hypernyms

• (order): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom; Proteobacteria - phylum; Alphaproteobacteria - class

Hyponyms

• (order): Aurantimonadaceae, Bartonellaceae, Beijerinckiaceae, Bradyrhizobiaceae, Brucellaceae, Hyphomicrobiaceae, Methylobacteriaceae, Methylocystaceae, Phyllobacteriaceae, Rhizobiaceae, Rhodobiaceae - families

References

• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521