was recommended that Rhodobacter sphaeroides be moved to the genus Cereibacter. This is the name currently used by the NCBI taxonomy database. References Bibliography Inomata Tsuyako, Higuchi Masataka (1976), Incorporation of tritium into cell materials of Rhodpseudomonas spheroides from tritiated water in the medium under aerobic conditions ; Journal of Biochemistry 80(3), p569-578, 1976-09 External links Video recordings van R. sphaeroides Type strain of Rhodobacter sphaeroides at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase Phototrophic bacteria Rhodobacteraceae Bacteria described in 1944