Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.812
Name
 Molisch 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lakshmi et al. 2014
Taxonomic Rank
genus
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
(Esmarch 1887) Molisch 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Favinger et al. 1994
van Niel 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)
Imhoff et al. 1998
Giesberger 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)
Lakshmi et al. 2013
Molisch 1907 (Approved Lists 1980)
Drews 1982
Nissen and Dundas 1985
Mack et al. 1996
Anil Kumar et al. 2008
Pfennig 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus 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
  Molisch 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lakshmi 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 Rhodospirillum Molisch 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lakshmi et al. 2014. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.812.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on March 24, 2020.

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