Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1058

Name

Gemmobacter Rothe et al. 1988 emend. Kang et al. 2017

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Liang et al. 2021

Members

species	Gemmobacter aquatilis Rothe et al. 1988 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Gemmobacter aestuarii Hameed et al. 2020
species	Gemmobacter aquarius Baek et al. 2020
species	Gemmobacter aquaticus (Liu et al. 2010) Chen et al. 2013
species	Gemmobacter caeni (Zheng et al. 2011) Chen et al. 2013 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Gemmobacter caeruleus Qu et al. 2020
species	Gemmobacter changlensis (Anil Kumar et al. 2007) Chen et al. 2013
species	Gemmobacter fontiphilus Chen et al. 2013
species	Gemmobacter fulvus corrig. Jin et al. 2022
species	Gemmobacter intermedius Kämpfer et al. 2015
species	Gemmobacter lanyuensis Sheu et al. 2013
species	Gemmobacter lutimaris Yoo et al. 2019
species	Gemmobacter megaterium Liu et al. 2014
species	Gemmobacter nanjingensis (Zhang et al. 2012) Chen et al. 2013
species	Gemmobacter nectariphilus (Tanaka et al. 2004) Chen et al. 2013
species	Gemmobacter serpentinus Lim et al. 2020
species	Gemmobacter straminiformis Kang et al. 2017
species	Gemmobacter tilapiae Sheu et al. 2013

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Rhodobacterales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Liang et al. 2021
genus Gemmobacter Rothe et al. 1988 emend. Kang et al. 2017

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Gemmobacter Rothe et al. 1988 emend. Kang et al. 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1058.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1058.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 22, 2021.

References

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