Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1540

Name

Blastochloris sulfoviridis (Keppen and Gorlenko 1975) Hiraishi 1997

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Blastochloris Hiraishi 1997

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 729^T (=P1)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Blastochloridaceae Hördt et al. 2020
genus Blastochloris Hiraishi 1997
species Blastochloris sulfoviridis (Keppen and Gorlenko 1975) Hiraishi 1997

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 species Blastochloris sulfoviridis (Keppen and Gorlenko 1975) Hiraishi 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1540.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1540.xml

References

Hiraishi A. Transfer of the bacteriochlorophyll b-containing phototrophic bacteria Rhodopseudomonas viridis and Rhodopseudomonas sulfoviridis to the genus Blastochloris gen. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:217-219. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-1-217 [PubMed].