Rhodobacteraceae

Maricaulis maris, copyright Patrick Viollier.

Belongs within: Alphaproteobacteria.
Contains: Paracoccus.

The Rhodobacteraceae are a diverse group of Gram-negative bacteria including both photo- and chemoheterotrophic taxa, primarily found in aquatic environments.

Rhodobacteraceae [Rhodobacterales]
    |--+--Oceanicaulis Strömpl, Hold et al. 2003 SH03
    |  |    `--*O. alexandrii Strömpl, Hold et al. 2003 SH03
    |  `--Maricaulis SH03
    |       |--M. parjimensis SH03
    |       `--+--M. maris SH03
    |          `--M. washingtonensis SH03
    `--+--+--Hirschia baltica SH03
       |  `--Hyphomonas SH03
       |       |--H. jannaschiana SH03
       |       `--H. polymorpha SH03
       `--Caulobacteraceae [Caulobacterales] GH01
            |--Asticcacaulis GH01
            |--Phenylobacterium GH01
            |--Brevundimonas GH01
            |    |--B. diminuta SH03
            |    `--B. vesicularis IT03
            `--Caulobacter SH03
                 |--C. crescentus IT03
                 `--C. vibrioides SH03

Rhodobacteraceae incertae sedis:
  Rhodobacter MK03
    |--R. azotoformans I01
    |--R. blasticus [=Rhodopseudomonas blastica] I01
    |--R. capsulatus MK03
    |--R. sphaeroides I01
    `--R. veldkampii I01
  Ahrensia GH01
  Amaricoccus GH01
  Antarctobacter GH01
  Gemmobacter GH01
  Octadecabacter GH01
  Paracoccus GH01
  Rhodovulum GH01
    |--R. adriaticum [=Rhodobacter adriaticus, Rhodopseudomonas adriatica] I01
    |--R. euryhalinum [=Rhodobacter euryhalinus] I01
    |--R. strictum I01
    `--R. sulfidophilum [=Rhodobacter sulfidophilus, Rhodopseudomonas sulfidophila] I01
  Roseivivax GH01
    |--R. halodurans I01
    `--R. halotolerans I01
  Roseobacter GH01
    |--R. denitrificans I01
    `--R. litoralis I01
  Roseovarius tolerans GH01, I01
  Rubrimonas cliftonensis GH01, I01
  Ruegeria GH01
  Sagittula GH01
  Staleya GH01
  Stappia GH01
  Sulfitobacter GH01

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[GH01] Garrity, G. M., & J. G. Holt. 2001. The road map to the Manual. In: Boone, D. R., R. W. Castenholz & G. M. Garrity (eds) Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology 2^nd ed. vol. 1. The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria pp. 119–166. Springer.

[I01] Imhoff, J. F. 2001. The anoxygenic phototrophic purple bacteria. In: Boone, D. R., R. W. Castenholz & G. M. Garrity (eds) Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology 2^nd ed. vol. 1. The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria pp. 631–637. Springer.

[IT03] Inagaki, F., K. Takai, H. Hirayama, Y. Yamato, K. H. Nealson & K. Horikoshi. 2003. Distribution and phylogenetic diversity of the subsurface microbial community in a Japanese epithermal gold mine. Extremophiles 7: 307–317.

[MK03] Mori, K., H. Kim, T. Kakegawa & S. Hanada. 2003. A novel lineage of sulfate-reducing microorganisms: Thermodesulfobiaceae fam. nov., Thermodesulfobium narugense, gen. nov., sp. nov., a new thermophilic isolate from a hot spring. Extremophiles 7: 283–290.

[SH03] Strömpl, C., G. L. Hold, H. Lünsdorf, J. Graham, S. Gallacher, W.-R. Abraham, E. R. B. Moore & K. N. Timmis. 2003. Oceanicaulis alexandrii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel stalked bacterium isolated from a culture of the dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense (Lebour) Balech. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1901–1906.