Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1564

Name

Rhodomicrobium Duchow and Douglas 1949 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff et al. 1984

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2016]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Hyphomicrobiaceae Babudieri 1950 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Rhodomicrobium vannielii Duchow and Douglas 1949 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Rhodomicrobium lacus Suresh et al. 2020
species	Rhodomicrobium udaipurense Ramana et al. 2013 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

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 Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Hyphomicrobiaceae Babudieri 1950 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Rhodomicrobium Duchow and Douglas 1949 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff et al. 1984

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

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Taxon Abstract for the genus Rhodomicrobium Duchow and Douglas 1949 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Imhoff et al. 1984. NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1564.


This information was last reviewed on February 14, 2020.

References

Ramana VV, Raj PS, Tushar L, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Rhodomicrobium udaipurense sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, phototrophic alphaproteobacterium isolated from a freshwater stream. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2684-2689. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.046409-0 [PubMed].
Suresh G, Kumar D, Uppada J, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Rhodomicrobium lacus sp. nov., an alkalitolerent bacterium isolated from Umiam lake, Shillong, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:662-667. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003813 [PubMed].
Duchow E, Douglas HC. Rhodomicrobium vannielii, a new photoheterotrophic bacterium. J Bacteriol 1949; 58:409-416. [PubMed].
Lee KB, Liu CT, Anzai Y, Kim H, Aono T, Oyaizu H. The hierarchical system of the 'Alphaproteobacteria': description of Hyphomonadaceae fam. nov., Xanthobacteraceae fam. nov. and Erythrobacteraceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1907-1919. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63663-0 [PubMed].