The Piscirickettsiaceae are a family of Pseudomonadota. All species are aerobes found in water.[2] The species Piscirickettsia salmonis is a fish pathogen and causes piscirickettsiosis in salmonid fishes.[3] It lives in cells of infected hosts and cannot be cultured on artificial media.[2] Piscirickettsia salmonis is nonmotile, whereas the other five genera are motile by using a single flagellum.[2]

Piscirickettsiaceae
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Thiotrichales
Family: Piscirickettsiaceae
Fryer and Lannan 2005
Genera

Cycloclasticus[1]
Galenea[1]
Hydrogenovibrio[1]
Methylophaga[1]
Piscirickettsia[1]
Sulfurivirga[1]
Thiomicrorhabdus[1]
Thiomicrospira[1]
Thiosulfatimonas[1]
Thiosulfativibrio[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Piscirickettsiaceae". www.uniprot.org.
  2. ^ a b c George M. Garrity: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria, Part B: The Gammaproteobacteria
  3. ^ Martin Dworkin, Stanley Falkow, Eugene Rosenberg, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, Erko Stackebrandt: The Prokaryotes, A Handbook of the Biology of Bacteria. Volume 5: Proteobacteria: Alpha and Beta Subclasses ISBN 978-0-387-25495-1
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