Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1204

Name

Blastomonas Sly and Cahill 1997 emend. Hiraishi et al. 2000

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	Sphingomonadaceae Kosako et al. 2000 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Blastomonas natatoria (Sly 1985) Sly and Cahill 1997 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Blastomonas aquatica Xiao et al. 2015
species	Blastomonas fulva Lee et al. 2017
species	Blastomonas marina Meng et al. 2017
species	Blastomonas quesadae Castro et al. 2017
species	Blastomonas ursincola (Yurkov et al. 1997) Hiraishi et al. 2000

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 Sphingomonadales Yabuuchi and Kosako 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Sphingomonadaceae Kosako et al. 2000 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Blastomonas Sly and Cahill 1997 emend. Hiraishi et al. 2000

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 Blastomonas Sly and Cahill 1997 emend. Hiraishi et al. 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1204.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1204.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 8, 2017.

References

Sly LI, Hugenholtz P. Genus II. Blastomonas. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 258.
Castro DJ, Llamas I, Béjar V, Martínez-Checa F. Blastomonas quesadae sp. nov., isolated from a saline soil by dilution-to-extinction cultivation. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2001-2007. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001902 [PubMed].
Sly LI, Cahill MM. Transfer of Blastobacter natatorius (Sly 1985) to the genus Blastomonas gen. nov. as Blastomonas natatoria comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:566-568. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-2-566 [PubMed].
Hiraishi A, Kuraishi H, Kawahara K. Emendation of the description of Blastomonas natatoria (Sly 1985) Sly and Cahill 1997 as an aerobic photosynthetic bacterium and reclassification of Erythromonas ursincola Yurkov et al. 1997 as Blastomonas ursincola comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1113-1118. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-3-1113 [PubMed].
Meng Y-C, Liu H-C, Kang Y-Q, Zhou Y-G, Cai M. Blastomonas marina sp. nov., a bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacterium isolated from seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3015-3019. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002070 [PubMed].
Xiao N, Liu Y, Liu X, Gu Z, Jiao N, Liu H, Zhou Y, Shen L. Blastomonas aquatica sp. nov., a bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacterium isolated from lake water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1653-1658. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000153 [PubMed].
Lee H-G, Ko S-R, Lee J-W, Lee CS, Ahn C-Y, Oh H-M, Jin L. Blastomonas fulva sp. nov., aerobic photosynthetic bacteria isolated from a Microcystis culture. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3071-3076. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002084 [PubMed].