Name: Rhodoblastus Imhoff 2001
Etymology: Rho.do.blas’tus. Gr. neut. n. rhodon, the rose; Gr. masc. n. blastos, bud shoot; N.L. masc. n. Rhodoblastus, the budding rose, referring to the cell colour and the mode of cell division
Gender: masculine (stem: Rhodoblast-)
Type species: Rhodoblastus acidophilus (Pfennig 1969) Imhoff 2001
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication: Imhoff JF. Transfer of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila to the new genus Rhodoblastus as Rhodoblastus acidophilus gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1863-1866.
IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1947-1948.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
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Rhodoblastus acidophilus (Pfennig 1969) Imhoff 2001 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Rhodoblastus sphagnicola Kulichevskaya et al. 2006 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Parent taxon: Roseiarcaceae Kulichevskaya et al. 2014
Assigned by: 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.
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Record number: 516474