ABSTRACT
Taxonomy is an essential discipline of the biological sciences because it provides a framework for the scientific community to facilitate understanding and knowledge exchange. It is perhaps one of the oldest biological sciences, having been in existence for at least 2400 years, since Aristotle devised the first hierarchy based on creationist and essentialist tenets (Rosseló-Mora, 2005). It is the science of classification, nomenclature, and identification, in which organisms are placed into new groups and named, or assigned to already known taxa, respectively. The microbial classification is one of the main biological fields because it disclosures the relationships between the different microorganisms, establishing the necessary scaffold to better understand and reconstruct their evolutionary history, in other words their kinship relationship (Madigan et al., 2009, 2012).
