Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2085

Name

Allochromatium Imhoff et al. 1998

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	Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sisinthy et al. 2017

Members

species	Allochromatium vinosum (Ehrenberg 1838) Imhoff et al. 1998
species	Allochromatium humboldtianum Serrano et al. 2015
species	Allochromatium minutissimum (Winogradsky 1888) Imhoff et al. 1998
species	Allochromatium phaeobacterium Srinivas et al. 2009
species	Allochromatium renukae Anil Kumar et al. 2008
species	Allochromatium tepidum Madigan et al. 2022
species	Allochromatium warmingii (Cohn 1875) Imhoff et al. 1998

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 Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Chromatiales Imhoff 2005
family Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Sisinthy et al. 2017
genus Allochromatium Imhoff et al. 1998

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 Allochromatium Imhoff et al. 1998. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2085.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2085.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 22, 2022.

References

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Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TNR, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Allochromatium renukae sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:404-407. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65376-0 [PubMed].
Serrano W, Schruebbers J, Amann R, Fischer U. Allochromatium humboldtianum sp. nov., a novel marine Allochromatium species isolated from soft coastal sediments off Peru. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2980-2985. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000364 [PubMed].
Imhoff JF, Süling J, Petri R. Phylogenetic relationships among the Chromatiaceae, their taxonomic reclassification and description of the new genera Allochromatium, Halochromatium, Isochromatium, Marichromatium, Thiococcus, Thiohalocapsa and Thermochromatium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1129-1143. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-4-1129 [PubMed].
Imhoff JF. Family I. Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924, 235 (AL) emend. Imhoff 1984b, 339. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part B, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 3-40.
Madigan MT, Absher JN, Mayers JE, Asao M, Jung DO, Bender KS, Kempher ML, Hayward MK, Sanguedolce SA, Brown AC, Takaichi S, Kurokawa K, Toyoda A, Mori H, Tsukatani Y, Wang-Otomo Z-Y, Ward DM, Sattley WM. Correction to: Allochromatium tepidum, sp. nov., a hot spring species of purple sulfur bacteria. Arch Microbiol 2022; 204:209-209. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-022-02827-8 [PubMed].