All 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 in this atlas's current catalog has been identified as bacterial or archaeal, so this subcategory is empty for now, ready for the prokaryotic families the atlas will place here as its microbial taxonomy deepens. 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.