Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5723

Name

Rubrobacter Suzuki et al. 1989 emend. Albuquerque et al. 2014

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	Rubrobacteraceae Rainey et al. 1997 emend. Foesel et al. 2016

Members

species	Rubrobacter radiotolerans (Yoshinaka et al. 1973) Suzuki et al. 1989 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Rubrobacter aplysinae Kämpfer et al. 2014 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Rubrobacter bracarensis Jurado et al. 2013 emend. Albuquerque et al. 2014
species	Rubrobacter calidifluminis Albuquerque et al. 2014
species	Rubrobacter indicoceani Chen et al. 2018
species	Rubrobacter marinus Chen et al. 2020
species	Rubrobacter naiadicus Albuquerque et al. 2014
species	Rubrobacter spartanus Norman et al. 2017
species	Rubrobacter taiwanensis Chen et al. 2004
species	Rubrobacter tropicus Chen et al. 2020
species	Rubrobacter xylanophilus Carreto et al. 1996 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

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 Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Rubrobacteria Suzuki 2013 emend. Foesel et al. 2016
subclass Rubrobacteridae Rainey et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
order Rubrobacterales Rainey et al. 1997 emend. Foesel et al. 2016
family Rubrobacteraceae Rainey et al. 1997 emend. Foesel et al. 2016
genus Rubrobacter Suzuki et al. 1989 emend. Albuquerque et al. 2014

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 Rubrobacter Suzuki et al. 1989 emend. Albuquerque et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5723.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5723.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 28, 2020.

References

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