Etymology:
Ec.to.thi.o.rho.do.spi’ra. Gr. adv.ektos, outside; Gr. neut. n.theîon, sulfur (Latin transliteration thium); Gr. neut. n.rhodon, the rose; Gr. fem. n.speîra, the spiral; N.L. fem. n.Ectothiorhodospira, spiral rose with sulfur outside
Effective publication:
Pelsh AO. Hydrobiology of Karabugz Bay of the Kaspian Sea. Trudy Solyanoi Laboratorii, Vsesoyuznogo Instituta Metallurgii NISNKT. Izdatelstvo Akademya Nauk SSSR, Moscow, Leningrad 1936; 5:49-126.
IJSEM list:
Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status:
correct name
Emendations:
Imhoff and Sueling 1996
Imhoff JF, Suling J. The phylogenetic relationship among Ectothiorhodospiraceae: a reevaluation of their taxonomy on the basis of 16S rDNA analyses. Arch Microbiol 1996; 165:106-113. Notes:
⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 3 species from the genus.
⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.
🧍 As of 2020-09-22 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.
Notes:
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Ectothiorhodospiraceae Imhoff 1984.Publication:
Imhoff JF. Reassignment of the genus Ectothiorhodospira Pelsh 1936 to a new family, Ectothiorhodospiraceae fam. nov., and emended description of the Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:338-339.
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Ectothiorhodospirales Chuvochina et al. 2024.Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the order Ectothiorhodospirales Chuvochina et al. 2024.Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Eciothiarhodospira"; "Eciothiorhodospira"; "Ecrorhiorhodospira"; "Ecthothiorhodospira"; "Ectothiorbodospira"; "Ectothiorhedospira"; "Ectothiorhodespira"; "Ectothiorhodoepira"; "Ectothiorhodopsora"; "Ectothiorhospira"; "Ectothiorlwdospira"; "Ectothiorodospira"; "Ectothisrhodospira"; "Ectthiorhodospira"; "Eetothiorhodospira"; "Hetothiorhodospira".
🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.Publication:
Imhoff JF, Madigan MT. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria. Minutes of the Meetings, 28 August 2000, Barcelona, Spain. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2002; 52:2335-2336.
🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.Publication:
Trüper HG, Imhoff JF. International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology - Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 10 September 1997, Vienna, Austria. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1999; 49:925-926.
🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.Publication:
Trueper HG, Imhoff JF. ICSB, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TAXONOMY OF THE PHOTOTROPHIC BACTERIA: Minutes of the meetings, 10 September 1997, Vienna, Austria. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1999; 49:925-926.
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 11; ATCC: 5; VKM: 3; NBRC: 2; KCTC: 2.
🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "ETSP" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer.Publication:
Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13 Total number of child taxa: 13
Assigned by:
Imhoff JF. Reassignment of the genus Ectothiorhodospira Pelsh 1936 to a new family, Ectothiorhodospiraceae fam. nov., and emended description of the Chromatiaceae Bavendamm 1924. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:338-339.
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