Translingual

Proper noun

Rhodospirillales

1. A taxonomic order within the class Alphaproteobacteria – some of the purple non-sulfur bacteria.

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

• (order): Acetobacteraceae, Rhodospirillaceae - 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