Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4359

Name

Heliobacterium Gest and Favinger 1985 emend. Kyndt et al. 2021

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	Heliobacteriaceae Asao and Madigan 2010

Members

species	Heliobacterium chlorum Gest and Favinger 1985
species	Heliobacterium gestii Ormerod et al. 1996
species	Heliobacterium mobile (Beer-Romero and Gest 1998) Kyndt et al. 2021
species	Heliobacterium modesticaldum Kimble et al. 1996
species	Heliobacterium sulfidophilum Bryantseva et al. 2000
species	Heliobacterium undosum Bryantseva et al. 2001

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
family Heliobacteriaceae Asao and Madigan 2010
genus Heliobacterium Gest and Favinger 1985 emend. Kyndt et al. 2021

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 Heliobacterium Gest and Favinger 1985 emend. Kyndt et al. 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4359.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4359.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 5, 2021.

References

Gest H, Favinger JL. Heliobacterium chlorum, a anoxygenic brownish-green photosynthetic bacterium containing a new form of bacteriochlorophyll. Arch Microbiol 1983; 136:11-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00415602.
Kimble LK, Mandelco L, Woese CR, Madigan MT. Heliobacterium modesticaldum sp. nov., a thermophilic heliobacterium of hot springs and volcanic soils. Arch Microbiol 1995; 163:259-267. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00393378.
Ormerod JG, Kimble LK, Nesbakken T, Torgersen YA, Woese CR, Madigan MT. Heliophilum fasciatum gen. nov. sp. nov. and Heliobacterium gestii sp. nov.: endospore-forming heliobacteria from rice field soils. Arch Microbiol 1996; 165:226-234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050320 [PubMed].
Bryantseva IA, Gorlenko VM, Tourova TP, Kuznetsov BB, Lysenko AM, Bykova SA, Gal'chenko VF, Mityushina LL, Osipov GA. Heliobacterium sulfidophilum sp. nov. and Heliobacterium undosum sp. nov.: sulfide-oxidizing heliobacteria from thermal sulfidic springs. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 2000; 69:396-406. [PubMed].
Kyndt JA, Montano Salama D, Meyer TE, Imhoff JF. Phylogenetic relationship of phototrophic heliobacteria and systematic reconsideration of species and genus assignments based on genome sequences of eight species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004729 [PubMed].