Name DOI
10.1601/nm.2071
Name
 Perty 1852 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff et al. 1998
Name Status
Validly Published
Current Authority
Perty 1852 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff et al. 1998
Preferred Name
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Nomenclatural Type
(designated species)
 (Ehrenberg 1838) Perty 1852 (Approved Lists 1980)
Taxonomy
Proper Form
Chromatium Perty 1852 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff et al. 1998
Nomenclatural History
The genus Chromatium was originally proposed by Perty 1852. This name appeared on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980. Pfennig and Trüper published an emended description of this genus in 1974. A subsequent emendation was proposed by Imhoff et al. in 1998.
Citation
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Name Abstract for Chromatium Perty 1852 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff et al. 1998.. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.2071.
Source File
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References

  1. Perty M. In: Perty M (ed), Zur Kenntnis kleinster Lebensformen., Jent and Reinert, Bern, 1852, p. 1-228.
  2. Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.
  3. Imhoff JF, Süling J, Petri R. Phylogenetic relationships among the Chromatiaceae, their taxonomic reclassification and description of the new genera Allochromatium, Halochromatium, Isochromatium, Marichromatium, Thiococcus, Thiohalocapsa and Thermochromatium. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1129-1143. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-4-1129 [PubMed].
  4. Pfennig N, Trüper HG. Genus I. Chromatium Perty 1852, 174. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 36-39.