Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1610

Name

Roseospirillum Glaeser and Overmann 2001

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	Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Roseospirillum parvum Glaeser and Overmann 1999 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

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 Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Roseospirillum Glaeser and Overmann 2001

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 Roseospirillum Glaeser and Overmann 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1610.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1610.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 24, 2020.

References

Glaeser J, Overmann J. Selective enrichment and characterization of Roseospirillum parvum, gen. nov. and sp. nov., a new purple nonsulfur bacterium with unusual light absorption properties. Arch Microbiol 1999; 171:405-416. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050727 [PubMed].
Lee KB, Liu CT, Anzai Y, Kim H, Aono T, Oyaizu H. The hierarchical system of the 'Alphaproteobacteria': description of Hyphomonadaceae fam. nov., Xanthobacteraceae fam. nov. and Erythrobacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1907-1919. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63663-0 [PubMed].
Hördt A, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Weinhold L-M, Gronow S, Kyrpides N, Woyke T, Schleuning M, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2020; 11:468. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468 [PubMed].