Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1538

Name

Blastochloris Hiraishi 1997

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	Blastochloridaceae Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Blastochloris viridis (Drews and Giesbrecht 1966) Hiraishi 1997 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Blastochloris gulmargensis Ramana et al. 2011
species	Blastochloris sulfoviridis (Keppen and Gorlenko 1975) Hiraishi 1997
species	Blastochloris tepida Madigan 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 Blastochloridaceae Hördt et al. 2020
genus Blastochloris Hiraishi 1997

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 Blastochloris Hiraishi 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1538.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1538.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 28, 2019.

References

Hiraishi A. Transfer of the bacteriochlorophyll b-containing phototrophic bacteria Rhodopseudomonas viridis and Rhodopseudomonas sulfoviridis to the genus Blastochloris gen. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:217-219. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-1-217 [PubMed].
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family VIII. Hyphomicrobiaceae 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. 476.
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].
Ramana VV, Kapoor S, Shobha E, Ramprasad EVV, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Blastochloris gulmargensis sp. nov., isolated from an epilithic phototrophic biofilm. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1811-1816. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.025965-0 [PubMed].
Madigan MT, Resnick SM, Kempher ML, Dohnalkova AC, Takaichi S, Wang-Otomo Z-Y, Toyoda A, Kurokawa K, Mori H, Tsukatani Y. Blastochloris tepida, sp. nov., a thermophilic species of the bacteriochlorophyll b-containing genus Blastochloris. Arch Microbiol 2019; 201:1351-1359. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-019-01701-4 [PubMed].