Effective publication:
Czurda V, Maresch E. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Athiorhodobakterien-Gesellschaften. Archiv für Mikrobiologie 1937; 8:99-124.
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
Risk group:
1
Emendations:
van Niel 1944
van Niel CB. THE CULTURE, GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY, AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE NON-SULFUR PURPLE AND BROWN BACTERIA. Bacteriol Rev 1944; 8:1-118.
Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420. Notes:
⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 4 new species in the genus.
Imhoff et al. 1984
Imhoff JF, Trüper HG, Pfennig N. Rearrangement of the species and genera of the phototrophic "purple nonsulfur bacteria". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:340-343. Notes:
⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 5 species from the genus.
Notes:
🧕 Breed et al. (1948) assigned this genus to the family "Athiorhodaceae" Molisch 1907.Publication:
Burkholder WH. Genus I. Pseudomonas Migula. Bacterial plant pathogens. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 82-150.
🧕 Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the family "Athiorhodaceae" Molisch 1907.Publication:
Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Bradyrhizobiaceae Garrity et al. 2006.Publication:
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family VII. Bradyrhizobiaceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria) part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 438.
🧕 Cavalier-Smith (1981) assigned this genus to the subkingdom "Eubacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1981.Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T. Eukaryote kingdoms: seven or nine? Biosystems 1981; 14:461-481.
🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus [Rhodobacillus].Publication:
Molisch H. Die Purpurbakterien nach neuen Untersuchungen I-VII. G. Fischer, Jena, 1907.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Phodopseudomonas"; "Rbodopseudomonas"; "Rhadnpseudomonas"; "Rhodapseudomonas"; "Rhodolgseudomonas"; "Rhodopscudomonas"; "Rhodopseadomonas"; "Rhodopseduomonas"; "Rhodopseirdomonas"; "Rhodopseldomonas"; "Rhodopselrdomonas"; "Rhodopsendomonas"; "Rhodopsetlnomonas"; "Rhodopseudomomas"; "Rhodopseudomona"; "Rhodopseudomonassul"; "Rhodopseudomonus"; "Rhodopseuidomonas"; "Rhodopsewlomonas"; "Rhodopsezldomonas"; "Rhodopsictdomonas"; "Rhodopsoudomonas"; "Rhodopsudomonas"; "Rhodospeudomonas"; "Rhodosuedomonas"; "Rhodupscudomonas"; "Rhodvpseudomonas"; "Rhosopseudomonas"; "Riiodopseudomonas"; "Rkodopseudomonas"; "Rodopseudomonas".
🧔 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.
🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.Publication:
Imhoff JF, Wilmotte A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Phototrophic Bacteria: Minutes of the meetings, 4 August 2015, Tubingen, Germany. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5211.
💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Suresh et al. (2020). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 18; NBRC: 16; ATCC: 16; LMG: 9; CIP: 8; CCUG: 8; JCM: 6; KCTC: 5; IFO: 5; NCIMB: 2.
😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1".
🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "ROPS" 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.
🧍 In the judicial Opinion 49, this name is cited as Rhodopseudomonas Czurda and Maresch 1937 emend. van Niel 1944.Publication:
Judicial Commission. Judicial Opinion No. 49. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1974; 24:551.
🧍 On the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names, this nomenclatural name is incorrectly cited as Rhodopseudomonas Kluyver and van Niel 1937 (sic).Publication:
Hill LR, Skerman VBD, Sneath PHA. Corrigenda to the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names edited for the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1984; 34:508-511.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 10 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 23 Total number of child taxa: 27