Rhodobacter

Rhodobacter
Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rhodobacterales
Family:	Paracoccaceae
Genus:	Rhodobacter Imhoff et al. 1984
Type species
Rhodobacter capsulatus
Species
Rhodobacter aestuarii Venkata Ramana et al. 2009 Rhodobacter azotoformans Hiraishi et al. 1997 Rhodobacter blasticus corrig. (Eckersley and Dow 1981) Kawasaki et al. 1994 Rhodobacter capsulatus (Molisch 1907) Imhoff et al. 1984 Rhodobacter johrii Girija et al. 2010 Rhodobacter maris Venkata Ramana et al. 2008 Rhodobacter megalophilus Arunasri et al. 2008 Rhodobacter ovatus Srinivas et al. 2008 Rhodobacter sphaeroides (van Niel 1944) Imhoff et al. 1984 Rhodobacter veldkampii Hansen and Imhoff 1985 Rhodobacter vinaykumarii Srinivas et al. 2007 Rhodobacter viridis Shalem Raj et al. 2013
Synonyms
Bieblia Hördt et al. 2020 Fuscovulum Suresh et al. 2020 Phaeovulum Suresh et al. 2020

Rhodobacter is a genus of bacteria in the family Paracoccaceae. The most famous species of Rhodobacter are Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Rhodobacter capsulatus, which are used as model organisms to study bacterial photosynthesis.^{[citation needed]}