Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2018

Name

Rhodocyclus purpureus Pfennig 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Rhodocyclus Pfennig 1978 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff et al. 1984

Type Strain

representative organism

DSM 168^T (=“Ames” 6770)

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 Rhodocyclales Garrity et al. 2006
family Rhodocyclaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
genus Rhodocyclus Pfennig 1978 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff et al. 1984
species Rhodocyclus purpureus Pfennig 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 species Rhodocyclus purpureus Pfennig 1978 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2018.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2018.xml

References

Pfennig N. Rhodocyclus purpureus gen. nov. and sp. nov., a ring-shaped, vitamin B12-requiring member of the family Rhodospirillaceae. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1978; 28:283-288. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-28-2-283.