Name: Rhodovulum marinum Srinivas et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ma.ri’num. L. neut. adj. marinum, of the sea, marine

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1215; CCUG 52183; DSM 18063; JA128; JCM 13300

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ891122 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Srinivas TN, Kumar PA, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV, Suling J, Imhoff JF. Rhodovulum marinum sp. nov., a novel phototrophic purple non-sulfur alphaproteobacterium from marine tides of Visakhapatnam, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1651-1656.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2251-2252.

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 risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 In the paper by Srinivas et al. 2006, the type strain ATCC BAA-1215 is cited as ATCC BAA 1215 (without dash). Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

Parent taxon: Rhodovulum Hiraishi and Ueda 1994

Assigned by: Srinivas TN, Kumar PA, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV, Suling J, Imhoff JF. Rhodovulum marinum sp. nov., a novel phototrophic purple non-sulfur alphaproteobacterium from marine tides of Visakhapatnam, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1651-1656.

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