Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1958

Name

Chromobacterium Bergonzini 1880 emend. De Ley et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Chromobacteriaceae Adeolu and Gupta 2013 emend. Chen et al. 2021

Members

species	Chromobacterium violaceum Bergonzini 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Chromobacterium alkanivorans Bajaj et al. 2016
species	Chromobacterium alticapitis O'Hara-Hanley et al. 2022
species	Chromobacterium amazonense Menezes et al. 2015
species	Chromobacterium aquaticum Young et al. 2008
species	Chromobacterium fluviatile Moss et al. 1981
species	Chromobacterium haemolyticum Han et al. 2008
species	Chromobacterium paludis Blackburn et al. 2020
species	Chromobacterium phragmitis Blackburn et al. 2019
species	Chromobacterium piscinae Kämpfer et al. 2009
species	Chromobacterium pseudoviolaceum Kämpfer et al. 2009
species	Chromobacterium rhizoryzae Zhou et al. 2016
species	Chromobacterium sinusclupearum O'Hara-Hanley et al. 2022
species	Chromobacterium sphagni Blackburn et al. 2017
species	Chromobacterium subtsugae Martin et al. 2007
species	Chromobacterium vaccinii Soby et al. 2013

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 Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Neisseriales Tønjum 2006 emend. Chen et al. 2021
family Chromobacteriaceae Adeolu and Gupta 2013 emend. Chen et al. 2021
genus Chromobacterium Bergonzini 1880 emend. De Ley et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Chromobacterium Bergonzini 1880 emend. De Ley et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1958.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1958.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 6, 2022.

References

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Bajaj A, Kumar A, Yadav S, Kaur G, Bala M, Singh NK, Kumar RM, Manickam N, Mayilraj S. Isolation and characterization of a novel Gram-negative bacterium Chromobacterium alkanivorans sp. nov., strain IITR-71T degrading halogenated alkanes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5228-5235. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001500 [PubMed].
Soby SD, Gadagkar SR, Contreras C, Caruso FL. Chromobacterium vaccinii sp. nov., isolated from native and cultivated cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) bogs and irrigation ponds. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1840-1846. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.045161-0 [PubMed].
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Blackburn MB, Farrar RR, Sparks ME, Kuhar D, Mitchell A, Gundersen-Rindal DE. Chromobacterium sphagni sp. nov., an insecticidal bacterium isolated from Sphagnum bogs. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3417-3422. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002127 [PubMed].
O'Hara-Hanley K, Harrison A, Soby SD. Chromobacterium alticapitis sp. nov. and Chromobacterium sinusclupearum sp. nov. isolated from wild cranberry bogs in the Cape Cod National Seashore, USA. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005410 [PubMed].
Blackburn MB, Farrar RR, Sparks ME, Kuhar D, Mowery JD, Mitchell A, Gundersen-Rindal DE. Chromobacterium phragmitis sp. nov., isolated from estuarine marshes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:2681-2686. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003508 [PubMed].
Han XY, Han FS, Segal J. Chromobacterium haemolyticum sp. nov., a strongly haemolytic species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1398-1403. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64681-0 [PubMed].
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