Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2104

Name

Marichromatium 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	Marichromatium gracile (Strzeszewski 1913) Imhoff et al. 1998
species	Marichromatium bheemlicum Anil Kumar et al. 2007
species	Marichromatium chrysaorae Shivali et al. 2011
species	Marichromatium fluminis Sucharita et al. 2010
species	Marichromatium indicum Arunasri et al. 2005
species	Marichromatium litoris Shivali et al. 2011
species	Marichromatium purpuratum (Imhoff and Trüper 1980) 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 Marichromatium 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 Marichromatium Imhoff et al. 1998. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2104.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2104.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 7, 2014.

References

Arunasri K, Sasikala C, Ramana CV, Süling J, Imhoff JF. Marichromatium indicum sp. nov., a novel purple sulfur gammaproteobacterium from mangrove soil of Goa, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:673-679. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02892-0 [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].
Anil Kumar P, Sasi Jyothsna TS, Srinivas TNR, Sasikala C, Ramana CV, Imhoff JF. Marichromatium bheemlicum sp. nov., a non-diazotrophic, photosynthetic gammaproteobacterium from a marine aquaculture pond. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1261-1265. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64753-0 [PubMed].
Shivali K, Ramana VV, Ramaprasad EVV, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Marichromatium litoris sp. nov. and Marichromatium chrysaorae sp. nov. isolated from beach sand and from a jelly fish (Chrysaora colorata). Syst Appl Microbiol 2011; 34:600-605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2011.08.002 [PubMed].
Sucharita K, Kumar ES, Sasikala C, Panda BB, Takaichi S, Ramana CV. Marichromatium fluminis sp. nov., a slightly alkaliphilic, phototrophic gammaproteobacterium isolated from river sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1103-1107. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.013284-0 [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.