Genus Rhodovulum

Name: Rhodovulum Hiraishi and Ueda 1994

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Rhod.o.vu.lum. Gr. neut. n. rhodon, the rose; N.L. neut. dim. n. ovulum, a small egg; from L. neut. n. ovum, an egg; N.L. neut. dim. n. Rhodovulum, small red egg

Gender: neuter (stem: Rhodovul-)

Type species: Rhodovulum sulfidophilum (Hansen and Veldkamp 1973) Hiraishi and Ueda 1994

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Hiraishi A, Ueda Y. Intrageneric structure of the genus Rhodobacter: transfer of Rhodobacter sulfidophilus and related marine species to the genus Rhodovulum gen. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1994; 44:15-23.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 44, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:372.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Notes:
- 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Rhodobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 161.
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Rhodopseudomonas Czurda and Maresch 1937 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Hansen TA, Veldkamp H. Rhodopseudomonas sulfidophila, nov. spec., a new species of the purple nonsulfur bacteria. Arch Mikrobiol 1973; 92:45-58.
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Rhodobacter Imhoff et al. 1984. Publication: Imhoff JF, Trüper HG, Pfennig N. Rearrangement of the species and genera of the phototrophic "purple nonsulfur bacteria". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:340-343.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Rhodovalum"; "Rhodovufum"; "Rhodovulunz"; "Rhodovulurn"; "Rhodowlum".
- 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF, Madigan MT. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria. Minutes of the Meetings, 28 August 2000, Barcelona, Spain. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2002; 52:2335-2336.
- 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF, Wilmotte A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria: minutes of the meetings, 11 August 2009, Montreal, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3907-3909.
- 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF, Wilmotte A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Phototrophic Bacteria: Minutes of the meetings, 4 August 2015, Tubingen, Germany. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5211.
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Kompantseva et al. (2012), Ramaprasad et al. (2016), Chakravarthy et al. (2009). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 13; ATCC: 8; KCTC: 7; JCM: 6; NBRC: 5; VKM: 2; CCUG: 2; IFO: 1; BCRC: 1.
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🧍 In 1997, the "Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria" proposed the abbreviation Rdv [1]. Publication: Trüper HG, Imhoff JF. International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology - Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 10 September 1997, Vienna, Austria. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1999; 49:925-926.
- 🧍 In the "Minutes of the meetings, 27 August 2003, Tokyo, Japan 2003", published in the May 2004 issue of the IJSEM, this abbreviation is erroneously cited as Rvu [2, 3]. Publication: Imhoff JF, Madigan MT. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes - Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 27 August 2003, Tokyo, Japan. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2004; 54:1001-1003.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 20
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 20
Total number of child taxa: 20

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Rhodovulum adriaticum (Neutzling et al. 1984) Hiraishi and Ueda 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum aestuarii Divyasree et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum algae Ramaprasad et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum bhavnagarense Srinivas et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum euryhalinum (Kompantseva 1989) Hiraishi and Ueda 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum imhoffii Srinivas et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum iodosum Straub et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum kholense Anil Kumar et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum lacipunicei Chakravarthy et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum mangrovi Nupur et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum marinum Srinivas et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum phaeolacus Lakshmi et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum robiginosum Straub et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum salis Srinivas et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum steppense Kompantseva et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum strictum Hiraishi and Ueda 1995	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum sulfidophilum (Hansen and Veldkamp 1973) Hiraishi and Ueda 1994	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum tesquicola Kompantseva et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum viride Srinivas et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Rhodovulum visakhapatnamense Srinivas et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021

Assigned by: Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109.

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Genus Rhodovulum