Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.846

Name

Roseospira Imhoff et al. 1998 emend. Guyoneaud et al. 2002

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	Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Roseospira mediosalina Imhoff et al. 1998
species	Roseospira goensis Kalyan Chakravarthy et al. 2007
species	Roseospira marina Guyoneaud et al. 2003
species	Roseospira navarrensis Guyoneaud et al. 2003
species	Roseospira thiosulfatophila Guyoneaud et al. 2002
species	Roseospira visakhapatnamensis Kalyan Chakravarthy et al. 2007

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 Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Roseospira Imhoff et al. 1998 emend. Guyoneaud et al. 2002

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 Roseospira Imhoff et al. 1998 emend. Guyoneaud et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.846.

Source File

10.1601/tx.846.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 24, 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.
Imhoff JF, Petri R, Süling J. Reclassification of species of the spiral-shaped phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria of the α-Proteobacteria: description of the new genera Phaeospirillum gen. nov., Rhodovibrio gen. nov., Rhodothalassium gen. nov. and Roseospira gen. nov. as well as transfer of Rhodospirillum fulvum to Phaeospirillum fulvum comb. nov., of Rhodospirillum molischianum to Phaeospirillum molischianum comb. nov., of Rhodospirillum salinarum to Rhodovibrio salinarum comb, nov., of Rhodospirillum sodomense to Rhodovibrio sodomensis comb. nov., of Rhodospirillum salexigens to Rhodothalassium salexigens comb. nov. and of Rhodospirillum mediosalinum to Roseospira mediosalina comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:793-798. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-3-793 [PubMed].
Kalyan Chakravarthy S, Srinivas TNR, Anil Kumar P, Sasikala Ch, Ramana CV. Roseospira visakhapatnamensis sp. nov. and Roseospira goensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2453-2457. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65105-0 [PubMed].
Guyoneaud R, Mouné S, Eatock C, Bothorel V, Hirschler-Réa A, Willison J, Duran R, Liesack W, Herbert R, Matheron R, Caumette P. Characterization of three spiral-shaped purple nonsulfur bacteria isolated from coastal lagoon sediments, saline sulfur springs, and microbial mats: emended description of the genus Roseospira and description of Roseospira marina sp. nov., Roseospira navarrensis sp. nov., and Roseospira thiosulfatophila sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 2002; 178:315-324. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-002-0454-y [PubMed].