Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1044

Name

Rhodobacter sphaeroides (van Niel 1944) Imhoff et al. 1984

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	Rhodobacter Imhoff et al. 1984 emend. Suresh et al. 2019

Type Strain

representative organism

ATH 2.4.1^T (=NCIB 8287 =DSM 158 =JCM 6121 =CGMCC 1.3368 =ATCC 17023 =CGMCC 1.1737 =NCIMB 8287 =LMG 2827 =BCRC 16407 =CECT 300 =KCTC 1434 =IAM 14237 =ATCC 11167 =ATCC 14690 =NBRC 12203 =NCIB 8253 =NCIMB 8253 =CIP 60.6 =IFO 12203 =CCUG 31486)

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 Rhodobacterales Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Liang et al. 2021
genus Rhodobacter Imhoff et al. 1984 emend. Suresh et al. 2019
species Rhodobacter sphaeroides (van Niel 1944) Imhoff et al. 1984

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.16195	2.4.1 (=ATCC BAA-808)
10.1601/ex.16196	ATH 2.4.3 (=ATCC 17025)
10.1601/ex.16197	ATH 2.4.9 (=ATCC 17029)
10.1601/ex.16198	KCTC 12085 (=KD131)
10.1601/ex.21425	WS8N

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Rhodobacter sphaeroides (van Niel 1944) Imhoff et al. 1984. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1044.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1044.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 24, 2019.

References

Imhoff JF, Trüper HG, Pfennig N. Rearrangements of the species and genera of the phototrophic "purple nonsulfur bacteria.". Int J Syst Bacteriol 1984; 34:340-343. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-34-3-340.