Microorganism Families

The taxonomic families of the prokaryotes, the bacteria and archaea, two of the three domains of life alongside Eukaryota. No family-rank taxon entity in this atlas's current catalog was identified as bacterial or archaeal in this pass (the taxon|family catch-all's 472 members split entirely among the other nine buckets, confirmed by reading every member's own sourced description before classifying it), so this subcategory is minted empty, ready for the prokaryotic families a future mint or backfill wave will place here as the atlas's microbial taxonomy deepens, per ruling 792's comprehensive-coverage target. A future member belongs here when its own sourced description identifies it as a bacterial family (such as Enterobacteriaceae) or an archaeal family under the standard bacteriological classification, the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature, LPSN, and the Catalogue of Life.