Name: Rhodobium pfennigii Caumette et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pfen.ni’gi.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. pfennigii, of Pfennig, named after Norbert Pfennig, a German microbiologist

Gender: neuter

Type strain: AR2102; ATCC BAA-1145; DSM 17143

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU445271 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Caumette P, Guyoneaud R, Duran R, Cravo-Laureau C, Matheron R. Rhodobium pfennigii sp. nov., a phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacterium with unusual bacteriochlorophyll a antennae, isolated from a brackish microbial mat on Rangiroa atoll, French Polynesia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1250-1255.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1935-1936.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Afifella pfennigii (Caumette et al. 2007) Urdiain et al. 2009

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Afifella pfennigii (Caumette et al. 2007) Urdiain et al. 2009	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Rhodobium pfennigii is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Rhodobium.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Rhodobium Hiraishi et al. 1995

Assigned by: Caumette P, Guyoneaud R, Duran R, Cravo-Laureau C, Matheron R. Rhodobium pfennigii sp. nov., a phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacterium with unusual bacteriochlorophyll a antennae, isolated from a brackish microbial mat on Rangiroa atoll, French Polynesia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1250-1255.

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Record number: 780433