Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.838

Name

Rhodocista Kawasaki et al. 1994 emend. Lin 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	Azospirillaceae Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Rhodocista centenaria Kawasaki et al. 1994 pro synon. Rhodospirillum centenum Favinger et al. 1994
species	Rhodocista pekingensis Zhang et al. 2003

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 Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Rhodospirillales Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Azospirillaceae Hördt et al. 2020
genus Rhodocista Kawasaki et al. 1994 emend. Lin 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 Rhodocista Kawasaki et al. 1994 emend. Lin et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.838.

Source File

10.1601/tx.838.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 23, 2020.

References

Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Rhodospirillaceae fam. nov. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part C, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1.
Kawasaki H, Hoshino Y, Kuraishi Y, Yamasoto K. Rhodocista centenaria gen. nov., sp. nov., a cyst-forming anoxygenic photosynthetic bacterium and its phylogenetic position in the Proteobacteria alpha group. J Gen Appl Microbiol 1992; 38:541-551.
Zhang D, Yang H, Zhang W, Huang Z, Liu SJ. Rhodocista pekingensis sp. nov., a cyst-forming phototrophic bacterium from a municipal wastewater treatment plant. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1111-1114. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02500-0 [PubMed].
Hördt A, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Weinhold L-M, Gronow S, Kyrpides N, Woyke T, Schleuning M, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2020; 11:468. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468 [PubMed].