Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.841

Name

Rhodospira Pfennig 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	Rhodospira trueperi Pfennig et al. 1998 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

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 Rhodospira Pfennig 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 Rhodospira Pfennig et al. 1998. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.841.

Source File

10.1601/tx.841.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.
Pfennig N, Lünsdorf H, Süling J, Imhoff JF. Rhodospira trueperi gen. nov., spec. nov., a new phototrophic Proteobacterium of the alpha group. Arch Microbiol 1997; 168:39-45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050467 [PubMed].