Etymology:
Rho.do.tha.las’si.um. Gr. neut. n.rhodon, the rose; Gr. masc. adj.thalassios, belonging to the sea; N.L. neut. n.Rhodothalassium, the rose belonging to the sea
Valid publication:
Imhoff JF, Petri R, Suling J. 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 1998; 48:793-798.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1085-1087.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status:
correct name
Emendations:
Venkata Ramana et al. 2013
Venkata Ramana V, Kalyana Chakravarthy S, Ramaprasad EV, Thiel V, Imhoff JF, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Emended description of the genus Rhodothalassium Imhoff et al., 1998 and proposal of Rhodothalassiaceae fam. nov. and Rhodothalassiales ord. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:28-32.
Euzeby JP. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 18. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2371-2372.
Notes:
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Rhodothalassiaceae Venkata Ramana et al. 2014.Publication:
Venkata Ramana V, Kalyana Chakravarthy S, Ramaprasad EV, Thiel V, Imhoff JF, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Emended description of the genus Rhodothalassium Imhoff et al., 1998 and proposal of Rhodothalassiaceae fam. nov. and Rhodothalassiales ord. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:28-32.
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Rhodothalassiales Venkata Ramana et al. 2014.Publication:
Venkata Ramana V, Kalyana Chakravarthy S, Ramaprasad EV, Thiel V, Imhoff JF, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Emended description of the genus Rhodothalassium Imhoff et al., 1998 and proposal of Rhodothalassiaceae fam. nov. and Rhodothalassiales ord. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:28-32.
🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006.Publication:
Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Rhodobacteraceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 161.
🧕 Venkata-Ramana et al. (2013) assigned this genus to the order Rhodothalassiales Venkata Ramana et al. 2014.Publication:
Venkata Ramana V, Kalyana Chakravarthy S, Ramaprasad EV, Thiel V, Imhoff JF, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Emended description of the genus Rhodothalassium Imhoff et al., 1998 and proposal of Rhodothalassiaceae fam. nov. and Rhodothalassiales ord. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:28-32.
🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Rhodospirillum Molisch 1907 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Drews G. Rhodospirillum salexigens, spec. nov., an obligatory halophilic phototrophic bacterium. Arch. Microbiol. 1981; 130:325-327.
📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
🧔 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:
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.
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 1; DSM: 1.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1 Total number of child taxa: 1