Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1830

Name

Rhodoferax antarcticus Madigan et al. 2001

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	Rhodoferax Hiraishi et al. 1992 emend. Farh et al. 2017

Type Strain

representative organism

ANT.BR^T (=DSM 24876 =ATCC 700587)

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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006
family Comamonadaceae Willems et al. 1991
genus Rhodoferax Hiraishi et al. 1992 emend. Farh et al. 2017
species Rhodoferax antarcticus Madigan et al. 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 species Rhodoferax antarcticus Madigan et al. 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1830.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1830.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 23, 2018.

References

Madigan MT, Jung DO, Woese CR, Achenbach LA. Rhodoferax antarcticus sp. nov., a moderately psychrophilic purple nonsulfur bacterium isolated from an Antarctic microbial mat. Arch Microbiol 2000; 173:269-277. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030000140 [PubMed].