Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1851

Name

Rubrivivax Willems et al. 1991

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	Comamonadaceae Willems et al. 1991

Members

species	Rubrivivax gelatinosus (Molisch 1907) Willems et al. 1991
species	Rubrivivax albus Sheu et al. 2020
species	Rubrivivax benzoatilyticus Ramana et al. 2006

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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006
family Comamonadaceae Willems et al. 1991
genus Rubrivivax Willems et al. 1991

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 Rubrivivax Willems et al. 1991. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1851.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1851.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 9, 2020.

References

Ramana CV, Sasikala C, Arunasri K, Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TNR, Shivaji S, Gupta P, Süling J, Imhoff JF. Rubrivivax benzoatilyticus sp. nov., an aromatic, hydrocarbon-degrading purple betaproteobacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2157-2164. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64209-0 [PubMed].
Sheu S-Y, Li Z-H, Young C-C, Chen W-M. Rubrivivax albus sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater pond. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:805-813. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003829 [PubMed].
Gomila M, Bowien B, Falsen E, Moore ER, Lalucat J. Description of Roseateles aquatilis sp. nov. and Roseateles terrae sp. nov., in the class Betaproteobacteria, and emended description of the genus Roseateles. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:6-11. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65169-0 [PubMed].
Willems A, Gillis M, DeLey J. Transfer of Rhodocyclus gelatinosus to Rubrivivax gelatinosus gen. nov., comb. nov., and phylogenetic relationships with Leptothrix, Sphaerotilus natans, Pseudomonas saccharophila, and Alcaligenes latus. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:65-73. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-41-1-65.