Bacteriovoracaceae
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| Bacteriovoracaceae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Bdellovibrionota |
| Class: | Bacteriovoracia |
| Order: | Bacteriovoracales |
| Family: | Bacteriovoracaceae Davidov & Jurkevitch 2004 |
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Bacteriovoracaceae is a family of gram-negative, comma-shaped bacteria. All members have a two-part life cycle consisting of a free-living motile "attack phase" and a "predatory phase" that lives in the periplasm of other gram-negative bacteria. Bacteriovoracaceae are found in freshwater and in the soil.[2]