Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.1828
Name
 Hiraishi et al. 1992 emend. Farh et al. 2017
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2016]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Willems et al. 1991
Members
Hiraishi et al. 1992
Madigan et al. 2001
Li et al. 2020
Zhou et al. 2019
Finneran et al. 2003
Farh et al. 2017
Park et al. 2019
Kaden et al. 2014
Jin et al. 2020
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
  Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
  Garrity et al. 2006
  Willems et al. 1991
  Hiraishi et al. 1992 emend. Farh et al. 2017

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 and cite NamesforLife.
Taxon Abstract for the genus Rhodoferax Hiraishi et al. 1992 emend. Farh et al. 2017. NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1828.
This information was last reviewed on September 9, 2020.

References

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  8. Li T, Zhuo Y, Jin C-Z, Wu X, Ko S-R, Jin F-J, Ahn C-Y, Oh H-M, Lee H-G, Jin L. Genomic insights into a novel species Rhodoferax aquaticus sp. nov., isolated from freshwater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4653-4660. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004325 [PubMed].
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  10. No reference is available 2015