Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.811
Name
 Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Taxonomic Rank
family
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Members
Molisch 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lakshmi et al. 2014
Tang et al. 2021
Park et al. 2014
Wang et al. 2019
Chen et al. 2017
Tarrand et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Falk et al. 1985
Yoon et al. 2007
Skerman et al. 1983
Yamada et al. 2011
(sic) Maszenan et al. 2005
Wang et al. 2020
Liu et al. 2011 emend. Jiang et al. 2014
Li et al. 2021
Liu et al. 2010
Rahalkar et al. 2012
Staley et al. 1987
Sorokina et al. 2013
Wang et al. 2019
Wang et al. 2009
Humrighouse et al. 2016
Kim et al. 2019
Noviana et al. 2020
Chen et al. 2018 emend. Li et al. 2021
Coenye et al. 2002
Yoon et al. 2007
Sheu et al. 2013
Pot and Gillis 2005
Kim et al. 2015
Amoozegar et al. 2013
Williams et al. 2012
Schleifer et al. 1992 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Bazylinski et al. 2013
Yu et al. 2016
Lai et al. 2009
Chen et al. 2017
Urios et al. 2008
Lin et al. 2015 emend. Chung et al. 2015
Lin et al. 2014
Yoon et al. 2007
Lai et al. 2009 emend. Dong et al. 2010
Li et al. 2020
Ruan et al. 2019 emend. Li et al. 2021
Lakshmi et al. 2014
Choi et al. 2009 emend. Yang et al. 2022
Imhoff et al. 1998
Lakshmi et al. 2011
Oh et al. 2010
Pagnier et al. 2011 emend. Lee et al. 2017
Imhoff et al. 1984 emend. Suresh et al. 2019
Kawasaki et al. 1994 emend. Lin et al. 2014
Imhoff et al. 1984
Pfennig et al. 1998
Imhoff et al. 1998
Imhoff et al. 1998 emend. Guyoneaud et al. 2002
Glaeser and Overmann 2001
Sly and Stackebrandt 1999 emend. Guo et al. 2020
Jean et al. 2016
Xi et al. 2013
Sizova et al. 2007
Zhang et al. 2008 emend. Urios et al. 2010
López-López et al. 2002 emend. Tsubouchi et al. 2014
Díaz-Cárdenas et al. 2010
Shi et al. 2003
Patwardhan and Costantino 2016
Lin et al. 2021
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
  Garrity et al. 2006
  Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
  Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

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 family Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.811.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on January 11, 2022.

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