Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1607

Name

Rhodobium Hiraishi et al. 1995 emend. Urdiain et al. 2008

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	Rhodobiaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

species	Rhodobium orientis Hiraishi et al. 1995 emend. Urdiain et al. 2008
species	Rhodobium gokarnense Srinivas et al. 2007 emend. Urdiain et al. 2008
species	Rhodobium marinum (Imhoff 1984) Hiraishi et al. 1995
species	Rhodobium pfennigii Caumette 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 Hyphomicrobiales Douglas 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Rhodobiaceae Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Rhodobium Hiraishi et al. 1995 emend. Urdiain et al. 2008

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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This information was last reviewed on March 24, 2020.

References

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Hiraishi A, Urata K, Satoh T. A new genus of marine budding phototrophic bacteria, Rhodobium gen. nov., which includes Rhodobium orientis sp. nov. and Rhodobium marinum comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:226-234. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-2-226 [PubMed].
Caumette P, Guyoneaud R, Duran R, Cravo-Laureau C, Matheron R. Rhodobium pfennigii sp. nov., a phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacterium with unusual bacteriochlorophyll a antennae, isolated from a brackish microbial mat on Rangiroa atoll, French Polynesia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1250-1255. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64775-0 [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].