Name: Rhodobacter viridis Shalem Raj et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: vi’ri.dis. L. masc./fem. adj. viridis, green, referring to a green bacterium

Gender: masculine

Type strain: JA737; KCTC 15167; MTCC 11105; NBRC 108864

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HE572577 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Raj PS, Ramaprasad EV, Vaseef S, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Rhodobacter viridis sp. nov., a phototrophic bacterium isolated from mud of a stream. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:181-186.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1211-1213.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 8 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Rhodobacter Imhoff et al. 1984

Assigned by: Raj PS, Ramaprasad EV, Vaseef S, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Rhodobacter viridis sp. nov., a phototrophic bacterium isolated from mud of a stream. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:181-186.

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