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Genus Rhodovulum

Name: Rhodovulum Hiraishi and Ueda 1994

Category, proposed as: genus, 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, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Rhodovul-), rhod-O-wu-lum

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

16S rRNA gene: Analysetree FASTA download

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 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. 🇧🇪
    • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 13; ATCC: 8; KCTC: 7; JCM: 6; NBRC: 5; LMG: 3; CCUG: 2; VKM: 2; BCRC: 1; MTCC: 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: Trueper HG, Imhoff JF. ICSB, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TAXONOMY OF THE 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

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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