Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.805

Name

Prosthecochloris Gorlenko 1970 (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	Prosthecochloris aestuarii Gorlenko 1970 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hahnke et al. 2016
species	Prosthecochloris corallii corrig. Cai et al. 2017
species	Prosthecochloris marina Bryantseva et al. 2020
species	Prosthecochloris vibrioformis (Pelsh 1936) Imhoff 2003
species	Prosthecochloris sp. None 2015

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 Prosthecochloris Gorlenko 1970 (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 Prosthecochloris Gorlenko 1970 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff 2003. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.805.

Source File

10.1601/tx.805.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 28, 2019.

References

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Bryantseva IA, Tarasov AL, Kostrikina NA, Gaisin VA, Grouzdev DS, Gorlenko VM. Prosthecochloris marina sp. nov., a new green sulfur bacterium from the coastal zone of the South China Sea. Arch Microbiol 2019; 201:1399-1404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-019-01707-y [PubMed].
Gorlenko VM. A new phototrophic green sulphur bacterium. Prosthecochloris aestuarii nov. gen. nov. spec. Z Allg Mikrobiol 1970; 10:147-149. [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].
No reference is available 2015