Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.27347

Name

Porphyrobacter meromictius Rathgeber et al. 2007

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Porphyrobacter Fuerst et al. 1993 emend. Coil et al. 2015

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 18336^T (=VKM B-2405 =ML4)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Sphingomonadales Yabuuchi and Kosako 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Erythrobacteraceae Lee et al. 2005 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Porphyrobacter Fuerst et al. 1993 emend. Coil et al. 2015
species Porphyrobacter meromictius Rathgeber et al. 2007

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 species Porphyrobacter meromictius Rathgeber et al. 2007. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.27347.

Source File

10.1601/tx.27347.xml

References

Rathgeber C, Yurkova N, Stackebrandt E, Schumann P, Humphrey E, Beaty JT, Yurkov V. Porphyrobacter meromictius sp. nov., an appendaged bacterium, that produces bacteriochlorophyll a. Curr Microbiol 2007; 55:356–361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-007-0275-y [PubMed].