Name: Halochromatium roseum Anil Kumar et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ro’se.um. L. neut. adj. roseum, rose-coloured, the colour of cell suspensions of the type strain

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1363; DSM 18859; JA134; JCM 14151

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AM283535 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kumar PA, Srinivas TN, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Halochromatium roseum sp. nov., a non-motile phototrophic gammaproteobacterium with gas vesicles, and emended description of the genus Halochromatium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2110-2113.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2727-2728.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Lamprobacter roseus" (Anil Kumar et al. 2007) Gorlenko et al. 2014	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.12702 (N = 5).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Halochromatium Imhoff et al. 1998

Assigned by: Kumar PA, Srinivas TN, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Halochromatium roseum sp. nov., a non-motile phototrophic gammaproteobacterium with gas vesicles, and emended description of the genus Halochromatium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2110-2113.

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Record number: 786714