Rhodothalassium

Rhodothalassium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Subclass:	Caulobacteridae
Order:	Rhodothalassiales Venkata Ramana et al. 2014 [1]
Family:	Rhodothalassiaceae Venkata Ramana et al. 2014 [1]
Genus:	Rhodothalassium Imhoff et al. 1998 [2]
Species [3] [2]
Rhodothalassium salexigens (Drews 1982) Imhoff et al. 1998

Rhodothalassium is a genus of bacteria in the family Rhodobacteraceae. ^[4] Up to now there is only one species of this genus known ( Rhodothalassium salexigens ). ^[5]

References

1. Venkata Ramana V, Kalyana Chakravarthy S, Ramaprasad EV, Thiel V, Imhoff JF, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV (February 2013). "Emended description of the genus Rhodothalassium Imhoff et al., 1998 and proposal of Rhodothalassiaceae fam. nov. and Rhodothalassiales ord. nov". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 36 (1): 28–32. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2012.09.003.
2. Imhoff JF, Petri R, Suling J (1998). "Reclassification of species of the spiral-shaped phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria of the alpha-Proteobacteria: Description of the new genera Phaeospirillum gen. nov., Rhodovibrio gen. nov., Rhodothalassium gen. nov. and Roseospira gen. nov. as well as transfer of Rhodospirillum fulvum to Phaeospirillum fulvum comb. nov., of Rhodospirillum molischianum to Phaeospirillum molischianum comb. nov., of Rhodospirillum salinarum to Rhodovibrio salexigens". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 48: 793–798. doi: 10.1099/00207713-48-3-793 . PMID   9734033.
3. Drews G. (1981). "Rhodospirillum salexigens, spec. nov., an obligatory halophilic phototrophic bacterium". Arch. Microbiol. 130 (4): 325–327. doi:10.1007/BF00425949. S2CID   23790155.
4. See the NCBI webpage on Rhodothalassium. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2007-03-19.
5. "Genus Rhodothalassium". LPSN. Retrieved 19 April 2018.

Further reading

• Imhoff JF, Petri R, Suling J (1998). "Reclassification of species of the spiral-shaped phototrophic purple non-sulfur bacteria of the alpha-Proteobacteria: Description of the new genera Phaeospirillum gen. nov., Rhodovibrio gen. nov., Rhodothalassium gen. nov. and Roseospira gen. nov. as well as transfer of Rhodospirillum fulvum to Phaeospirillum fulvum comb. nov., of Rhodospirillum molischianum to Phaeospirillum molischianum comb. nov., of Rhodospirillum salinarum to Rhodovibrio salexigens". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 48 (3): 793–798. doi: 10.1099/00207713-48-3-793 . PMID   9734033.