Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2148

Name

Thiorhodococcus Guyoneaud et al. 1998

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	Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sisinthy et al. 2017

Members

species	Thiorhodococcus minor corrig. Guyoneaud et al. 1998
species	Thiorhodococcus alkaliphilus Prathyash Ushus et al. 2017
species	Thiorhodococcus bheemlicus Anil Kumar et al. 2007
species	Thiorhodococcus drewsii Zaar et al. 2003
species	Thiorhodococcus fuscus Lakshmi et al. 2015
species	Thiorhodococcus kakinadensis Anil Kumar et al. 2007
species	Thiorhodococcus mannitoliphagus Rabold et al. 2006
species	Thiorhodococcus modestalkaliphilus Sucharita et al. 2010

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Chromatiales Imhoff 2005
family Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sisinthy et al. 2017
genus Thiorhodococcus Guyoneaud et al. 1998

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 Thiorhodococcus Guyoneaud et al. 1998. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2148.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2148.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 13, 2017.

References

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Zaar A, Fuchs G, Golecki JR, Overmann J. A new purple sulfur bacterium isolated from a littoral microbial mat, Thiorhodococcus drewsii sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 2003; 179:174-183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-002-0514-3 [PubMed].
Prathyash Ushus MJ, Divyasree B, Lakshmi KVNS, Dave BP, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Description of a phototrophic bacterium, Thiorhodococcus alkaliphilus sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2323-2327. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001947 [PubMed].
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Anil Kumar P, Sasi Jyothsna TS, Srinivas TNR, Sasikala C, Ramana CHV, Imhoff JF. Two novel species of marine phototrophic Gammaproteobacteria: Thiorhodococcus bheemlicus sp. nov. and Thiorhodococcus kakinadensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2458-2461. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64880-0 [PubMed].
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