Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.792

Name

Chlorobaculum Imhoff 2003

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	Chlorobiaceae Copeland 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Chlorobaculum tepidum (Wahlund et al. 1996) Imhoff 2003
species	Chlorobaculum chlorovibrioides (Gorlenko et al. 1974) Imhoff 2003
species	Chlorobaculum limnaeum Imhoff 2003 emend. García-López et al. 2019
species	Chlorobaculum macestae Keppen et al. 2008
species	Chlorobaculum parvum Imhoff 2003
species	Chlorobaculum thiosulfatiphilum Imhoff 2022

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 Chlorobi (sic) Iino et al. 2021
class Chlorobia (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Garrity and Holt 2005
order Chlorobiales Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Chlorobiaceae Copeland 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Chlorobaculum Imhoff 2003

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 Chlorobaculum Imhoff 2003. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.792.

Source File

10.1601/tx.792.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 20, 2021.

References

Imhoff JF. Phylogenetic taxonomy of the family Chlorobiaceae on the basis of 16S rRNA and fmo (Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein) gene sequences. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:941-951. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02403-0 [PubMed].
Keppen OI, Berg IA, Lebedeva NV, Taisova AS, Kolganova TV, Slobodova NV, Bulygina ES, Tourova TP, Ivanovsky RN. Chlorobaculum macestae sp. nov., a new green sulfur bacterium. Microbiology (English translation of Mikrobiologiya) 2008; 77:69-77. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261708010104 [PubMed].