Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1491

Name

Rhodoblastus Imhoff 2001

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	Roseiarcaceae Kulichevskaya et al. 2014 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Rhodoblastus acidophilus (Pfennig 1969) Imhoff 2001 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Rhodoblastus sphagnicola Kulichevskaya et al. 2006 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 Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Roseiarcaceae Kulichevskaya et al. 2014 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Rhodoblastus Imhoff 2001

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 Rhodoblastus Imhoff 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1491.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1491.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 24, 2020.

References

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Kulichevskaya IS, Guzev VS, Gorlenko VM, Liesack W, Dedysh SN. Rhodoblastus sphagnicola sp. nov., a novel acidophilic purple non-sulfur bacterium from Sphagnum peat bog. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1397-1402. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63962-0 [PubMed].
Imhoff JF. Transfer of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila to the new genus Rhodoblastus as Rhodoblastus acidophilus gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1863-1866. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-51-5-1863 [PubMed].
Hördt A, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Weinhold L-M, Gronow S, Kyrpides N, Woyke T, Schleuning M, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2020; 11:468. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468 [PubMed].