Rhodothalassium
| Rhodothalassium | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Rhodothalassiales Venkata Ramana et al. 2014[2] |
| Family: | Rhodothalassiaceae Venkata Ramana et al. 2014[2] |
| Genus: | Rhodothalassium Imhoff et al. 1998[1] |
| Species: | R. salexigens
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhodothalassium salexigens (Drews 1982) Imhoff et al. 1998
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Rhodothalassium is a genus of bacteria in the family Rhodothalassiaceae.[3] Up to now there is only one species of this genus known (Rhodothalassium salexigens).[4]
References
- ^ Imhoff JF, Petri R, Suling J (1998). "Reclassification of species of the spiral-shaped phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria of the alpha-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 salexigens". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 48: 793–798. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-3-793. PMID 9734033.
- ^ a b Venkata Ramana V, Kalyana Chakravarthy S, Ramaprasad EV, Thiel V, Imhoff JF, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV (February 2013). "Emended description of the genus Rhodothalassium Imhoff et al., 1998 and proposal of Rhodothalassiaceae fam. nov. and Rhodothalassiales ord. nov". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 36 (1): 28–32. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2012.09.003.
- ^ See the NCBI webpage on Rhodothalassium. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
- ^ "Genus Rhodothalassium". LPSN. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
Further reading
- Drews G. (1981). "Rhodospirillum salexigens, spec. nov., an obligatory halophilic phototrophic bacterium". Arch. Microbiol. 130 (4): 325–327. doi:10.1007/BF00425949. S2CID 23790155.