Name: Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Chlo.ro.bi.um. Gr. masc. adj. chlôros, greenish-yellow, pale green; Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Chlorobium, green life

Gender: neuter (stem: Chlorobi-)

Type species: Chlorobium limicola Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980)

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Nadson GA. The morphology of inferior Algae. III. Chlorobium limicola Nads., the green chlorophyll bearing microbe (in Russian). Bulletin du Jardin Botanique, St. Petersbourg 1906; 6:190.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 14

Parent taxon: Chlorobiaceae Copeland 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Copeland HF. The classification of lower organisms. Pacific Books, Palo Alto, California, 1956.

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Record number: 516995
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