rhodopirellula rhodopirellula rhodopirellula is a genus of marine bacteria from the family of planctomycetaceae. rhodopirellula scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: planctomycetota class: planctomycetia order: pirellulales family: pirellulaceae genus: rhodopirellulaschlesner et al. 2004 type species rhodopirellula balticaschlesner et al. 2004 species "r. bahusiensis" r. baltica "r. europaea" r. heiligendammensis "r. islandica" r. lusitana r. pilleata r. rubra "r. sallentina" r. solitaria phylogeny the currently accepted taxonomy is based on the list of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature (lpsn) and national center for biotechnology information (ncbi) 16s rrna based ltp_01_2022 120 marker proteins based gtdb 07-rs207 r. baltica r. rubra r. lusitana bondoso et al. 2014 r. pilleata r. heiligendammensis kallscheuer et al. 2021 r. solitaria r. pilleata kallscheuer et al. 2021 r. solitaria kallscheuer et al. 2021 "r. sallentina" frank 2011 r. rubra bondoso et al. 2014 "r. islandica" kizina et al. 2015 "r. bahusiensis" frank 2011 r. baltica schlesner et al. 2004 "r. europaea" frank 2011