Belongs within: Deltaproteobacteria.
The Cystobacterineae are a group of myxobacteria with slender, flexible rod-shaped cells that tend to form thin, filmlike swarms on agar and transform into myxospores via sustantial shortening and fattening.
Cystobacterineae [Cystobacteraceae, Myxococcaceae]
|–Stigmatella aurantiaca IJ03
`–+–+–Cystobacter fuscus IJ03
| `–+–Angiococcus disciformis IJ03
| `–Archangium [Archangiaceae] IJ03
| `–A. gephyra IJ03
`–+–Melittangium lichenicola IJ03
`–Myxococcus IJ03
|–M. coralloides IJ03
|–M. fulvus PHK96
|–M. stipitatus PHK96
`–M. xanthus IJ03
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[IJ03] Iizuka, T., Y. Jojima, R. Fudou, A. Hiraishi, J.-W. Ahn & S. Yamanaka. 2003. Plesiocystis pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine myxobacterium that contains dihydrogenated menaquinone, isolated from the Pacific coasts of Japan. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 189–195.
[PHK96] Prescott, L. M., J. P. Harley & D. A. Klein. 1996. Microbiology 3rd ed. Wm. C. Brown Publishers: Dubuque (Iowa).