Tags: Bacteria.
Dehalococcoides is a class of Chloroflexi a phylum of Bacteria. It is also known as the DHC group.[citation needed]The name Dehalococcoidetes is a placeholder name given by Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt 2004 after Dehalococcoides ethenogenes a partially described species in 1997 whereas the first species fully described belonging to this class was Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens by Moe et al. 2009 but no emendations to the name were made.