David Hendricks Bergey Bücher

Bacterial classification; Bacterial nomenclature; Identification of bacteria; Reference collections of bacteria - the need and requirement for type strains; List of culture collections; The higher taxa, or a place for everything? Kingdom procaryotae; Gracilicutes; Firmicutes; Tenericutes; Mendosicutes; The spirochetes; Aerobic/microaerophilic, motile, helical/vibrioid gram-negative bacteria; Nonmotile (or rarely motile), gram-negative curved bacteria; Gran-negative aerobic rods and cocci; Facultatively anaerobic gram-negative rods; Anaerobic gram-negative straight, curved and helical rods; Dissemilatory sulfate- or sulfur-reducing bacteria; Anaerobic gram-negative cocci; The rickettsias and chlamydias; The mycoplasmas; Endosymbionts

Phototrophic bacteria. The gilding bacteria. The sheathed bacteria. Budding and/or appendaged bacteria. The spirochetes. Spiral and curved bacteria. Gram-negative aerobic rods and cocci. Gram-negative facultatively anerobic rods. Gram-negative anaerobic bacteria. Gram-negative cocci and coccobacilli. Gram-negative anaerobic cocci. Gram-negative, chemolithotrophic bacteria. Methane-producing bacteria. Gram-positive cocci. Endospore-forming rods and cocci. Gram-positive, asporoge-nous rod-shaped bacteria. Actinomycetes and related organisms. The rickettsias. The mycoplasmas.