Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2155

Name

Ectothiorhodospira Pelsh 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Ectothiorhodospiraceae Imhoff 1984 emend. Imhoff et al. 2022

Members

species	Ectothiorhodospira mobilis Pelsh 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ventura et al. 2000
species	Ectothiorhodospira abdelmalekii Imhoff and Trüper 1982
species	Ectothiorhodospira haloalkaliphila Imhoff and Süling 1997
species	Ectothiorhodospira halochloris Imhoff and Trüper 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Ectothiorhodospira halophila Raymond and Sistrom 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Ectothiorhodospira magna Bryantseva et al. 2011
species	Ectothiorhodospira marina Imhoff and Süling 1997
species	Ectothiorhodospira marismortui Oren et al. 1990
species	Ectothiorhodospira salini Ramana et al. 2011
species	Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii Cherni et al. 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ventura et al. 2000
species	Ectothiorhodospira vacuolata Imhoff et al. 1982
species	Ectothiorhodospira variabilis Gorlenko et al. 2009

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 Ectothiorhodospiraceae Imhoff 1984 emend. Imhoff et al. 2022
genus Ectothiorhodospira Pelsh 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Ectothiorhodospira Pelsh 1936 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2155.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2155.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 11, 2011.

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