Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.2117

Name

Thermochromatium 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	Thermochromatium tepidum (Madigan 1986) 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 Thermochromatium 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 Thermochromatium Imhoff et al. 1998. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.2117.

Source File

10.1601/tx.2117.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 17, 2009.

References

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.