Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2093

Name

Amoebobacter purpureus Eichler and Pfennig 1989

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	Thiocapsa Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Guyoneaud et al. 1998

Type Strain

representative organism

ThSch12^T (=Schleinsee =BN 4450 =DSM 4197 =ATCC 49210)

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 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 Thiocapsa Winogradsky 1888 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Guyoneaud et al. 1998
species Amoebobacter purpureus Eichler and Pfennig 1989

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 Amoebobacter purpureus Eichler and Pfennig 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2093.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2093.xml

References

Eichler B, Pfennig N. A new purple sulfur bacterium from stratified fresh water lakes, Amoebobacter purpurens. Arch Microbiol 1988; 149:395-400. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00425577.