Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi Löffler, Frank E. and Yan, Jun and Ritalahti, Kirsti M. and Adrian, Lorenz and Edwards, Elizabeth A. and Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T. and Müller, Jochen A. and Fullerton, Heather and Zinder, Stephen H. and Spormann, Alfred M.,, 65, 2015-2015 (2015), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000308, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= , language=, type=