Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1225

Name

Porphyrobacter Fuerst et al. 1993 emend. Coil et al. 2015

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	Erythrobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Porphyrobacter neustonensis Fuerst et al. 1993 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Porphyrobacter algicida Kristyanto et al. 2017
species	Porphyrobacter colymbi Furuhata et al. 2013
species	Porphyrobacter cryptus Rainey et al. 2003 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Porphyrobacter dokdonensis Yoon et al. 2006
species	Porphyrobacter donghaensis Yoon et al. 2004
species	Porphyrobacter mercurialis Coil et al. 2016
species	Porphyrobacter meromictius Rathgeber et al. 2007
species	Porphyrobacter sanguineus (ex Ahrens and Rheinheimer 1967) Hiraishi et al. 2002
species	Porphyrobacter tepidarius Hanada et al. 1997

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 Erythrobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Porphyrobacter Fuerst et al. 1993 emend. Coil et al. 2015

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 Porphyrobacter Fuerst et al. 1993 emend. Coil et al. 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1225.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1225.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 15, 2017.

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