Rhodospirillales
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The Rhodospirillales are an order of Pseudomonadota.<ref name="LPSN">Template:Cite web</ref>
Notable Families
The Acetobacteraceae comprise the acetic acid bacteria, which are heterotrophic and produce acetic acid during their respiration.<ref name=BergeyAlpha>Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. Template:ISBN.</ref>
The Rhodospirillaceae include mainly purple nonsulfur bacteria, which produce energy through photosynthesis.<ref name=BergeyAlpha />
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN).<ref name="LPSN" /> The phylogeny is based on whole-genome analysis.<ref name="Hördt">Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Efn