Name: Chlorobium phaeovibrioides Pfennig 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: phae.o.vi.bri.o.i.des. Gr. masc. adj. phaios, dark, brown; L. v. vibro, to set in tremulous motion, move to and fro, vibrate; N.L. masc. n. vibrio, that which vibrates, and also a bacterial genus name of bacteria possessing a curved rod shape (Vibrio); L. adj. suff. -oides, ressembling, similar; from Gr. neut. adj. suff. -eides, resembling, similar; from Gr. neut. n. eîdos, that which is seen, form, shape, figure; N.L. adj. phaeovibrioides, brown vibrio-shaped

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 269; Langvik; SMG 269

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: Y10654 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Pfennig N. [Chlorobium phaeobacteroides nov. spec. and C. phaeovibrioides nov. spec., two new species of green sulfur bacteria]. Arch Mikrobiol 1968; 63:224-226.

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

• Emendations:
  • Imhoff 2003 Imhoff JF. Phylogenetic taxonomy of the family Chlorobiaceae on the basis of 16S rRNA and fmo (Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein) gene sequences. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:941-951. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1703-1705.
    Notes:
    • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the associated publication is not functional any more.

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 19 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Chlorobium Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Pfennig N. [Chlorobium phaeobacteroides nov. spec. and C. phaeovibrioides nov. spec., two new species of green sulfur bacteria]. Arch Mikrobiol 1968; 63:224-226.

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Record number: 774664