Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.835

Name

Phaeospirillum Imhoff 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	Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Phaeospirillum fulvum (van Niel 1944) Imhoff et al. 1998
species	Phaeospirillum chandramohanii Anil Kumar et al. 2009
species	Phaeospirillum molischianum (Giesberger 1947) Imhoff et al. 1998
species	Phaeospirillum oryzae Lakshmi et al. 2011
species	Phaeospirillum tilakii Raj et al. 2012

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 Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Phaeospirillum Imhoff 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 Phaeospirillum Imhoff et al. 1998. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.835.

Source File

10.1601/tx.835.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 24, 2020.

References

Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Rhodospirillaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1.
Anil Kumar P, Srinivas S, Takaichi TNR, Maoka T, Sasikala C, Ramana CV. Phaeospirillum chandramohanii sp. nov., a phototrophic alphaproteobacterium with carotenoid glycosides. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2089-2093. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.009019-0 [PubMed].
Imhoff JF, Petri R, Süling J. Reclassification of species of the spiral-shaped phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria of the α-Proteobacteria: description of the new genera Phaeospirillum gen. nov., Rhodovibrio gen. nov., Rhodothalassium gen. nov. and Roseospira gen. nov. as well as transfer of Rhodospirillum fulvum to Phaeospirillum fulvum comb. nov., of Rhodospirillum molischianum to Phaeospirillum molischianum comb. nov., of Rhodospirillum salinarum to Rhodovibrio salinarum comb, nov., of Rhodospirillum sodomense to Rhodovibrio sodomensis comb. nov., of Rhodospirillum salexigens to Rhodothalassium salexigens comb. nov. and of Rhodospirillum mediosalinum to Roseospira mediosalina comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:793-798. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-3-793 [PubMed].
Raj PS, Chakravarthy SK, Ramaprasad EVV, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Phaeospirillum tilakii sp. nov., a phototrophic alphaproteobacterium isolated from aquatic sediments. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1069-1074. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.032250-0 [PubMed].
Lakshmi KVNS, Sasikala Ch, Takaichi S, Ramana ChV. Phaeospirillum oryzae sp. nov., a spheroplast-forming, phototrophic alphaproteobacterium from a paddy soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1656-1661. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.025544-0 [PubMed].