Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.781

Name

Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff 2003

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	Chlorobiaceae Copeland 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Chlorobium limicola Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hahnke et al. 2016
species	Chlorobium canadense Tsuji et al. 2020
species	Chlorobium chlorochromatii Vogl et al. 2006
species	Chlorobium chlorovibrioides Gorlenko et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Chlorobium clathratiforme (Szafer 1911) Imhoff 2003 pro synon. Pelodictyon phaeoclathratiforme Overmann and Pfennig 1990
species	Chlorobium luteolum (Schmidle 1901) Imhoff 2003
species	Chlorobium phaeobacteroides Pfennig 1968 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hahnke et al. 2016
species	Chlorobium phaeovibrioides Pfennig 1968 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff 2003
species	Chlorobium tepidum Wahlund et al. 1996
species	Chlorobium vibrioforme Pelsh 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Chlorobi (sic) Iino et al. 2021
class Chlorobia (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Garrity and Holt 2005
order Chlorobiales Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Chlorobiaceae Copeland 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff 2003

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 Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff 2003. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.781.

Source File

10.1601/tx.781.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 8, 2021.

References

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Pfennig N. Chlorobium phaeobacteriodes nov. spec. und C. phaeovibrioides nov. spec. Zwei neue Arten der grünen Schwefelbakterien. Arch Mikrobiol 1968; 63:224-226. [PubMed].
Vogl K, Glaeser J, Pfannes KR, Wanner G, Overmann J. Chlorobium chlorochromatii sp. nov., a symbiotic green sulfur bacterium isolated from the phototrophic consortium "Chlorochromatium aggregatum". Arch Microbiol 2006; 185:363-372. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-006-0102-z [PubMed].
Wahlund TM, Woese CR, Castenholz RW, Madigan MT. A thermophilic green sulfur bacterium from New Zealand hot springs, Chlorobium tepidum sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 1991; 156:81-90.
Tsuji JM, Tran N, Schiff SL, Venkiteswaran JJ, Molot LA, Tank M, Hanada S, Neufeld JD. Anoxygenic photosynthesis and iron-sulfur metabolic potential of Chlorobia populations from seasonally anoxic Boreal Shield lakes. ISME J 2020; 14:2732-2747. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-0725-0 [PubMed].
Imhoff JF. Phylogenetic taxonomy of the family Chlorobiaceae on the basis of 16S rRNA and fmo (Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein) gene sequences. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:941-951. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02403-0 [PubMed].
Pelsh AD. Hydrobiology of Karabugaz Bay of the Caspian Sea. Tr Solyanoi Lab Vses Inst Metallurgii NIS NKT Izdatelstvo Akad Nauk SSSR (Moscow-Leningrad) 1936; 5:49-126.
Gorlenko VM, Chebotarev EN, Kachalkin VI. Participation of microorganisms in sulfur turnover in Pomiaretzkoe Lake. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 1974; 43:908-914. [PubMed].