Rhodothalassium

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Rhodothalassium

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Pseudomonadota

| classis = Alphaproteobacteria

| subclassis = Caulobacteridae

| ordo = Rhodothalassiales

| ordo_authority = Venkata Ramana et al. 2014{{cite journal |vauthors=Venkata Ramana V, Kalyana Chakravarthy S, Ramaprasad EV, Thiel V, Imhoff JF, ((Sasikala Ch)), ((Ramana ChV)) |date=February 2013 | title = Emended description of the genus Rhodothalassium Imhoff et al., 1998 and proposal of Rhodothalassiaceae fam. nov. and Rhodothalassiales ord. nov |journal=Systematic and Applied Microbiology |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=28–32 |doi=10.1016/j.syapm.2012.09.003}}

| familia = Rhodothalassiaceae

| familia_authority = Venkata Ramana et al. 2014

| genus = Rhodothalassium

| genus_authority = Imhoff et al. 1998{{cite journal |vauthors=Imhoff JF, Petri R, Suling J | title = 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 | journal = Int J Syst Bacteriol | year = 1998 | volume = 48 | pages = 793–798| doi = 10.1099/00207713-48-3-793 | pmid = 9734033 | doi-access = free }}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision_ref = {{cite journal | author = Drews G. | title = Rhodospirillum salexigens, spec. nov., an obligatory halophilic phototrophic bacterium | journal = Arch. Microbiol. | year = 1981 | volume = 130 | issue = 4 | pages = 325–327| doi = 10.1007/BF00425949 | s2cid = 23790155 }}

| subdivision =

• Rhodothalassium salexigens (Drews 1982) Imhoff et al. 1998

}}

Rhodothalassium is a genus of bacteria in the family Rhodobacteraceae.See the NCBI [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=85273 webpage on Rhodothalassium]. Data extracted from the {{cite web | url=http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/ | title=NCBI taxonomy resources | publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information | access-date=2007-03-19}} Up to now there is only one species of this genus known (Rhodothalassium salexigens).{{cite web|url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/rhodothalassium |access-date=19 April 2018 |title=Genus Rhodothalassium |website=LPSN}}