In taxonomy Ruegeria is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae. This genus was formerly known as the marine Agrobacterium before they were reclassified in 1998. It bears in fact the name of Hans-Jürgen Rüger a German microbiologist for his contribution to the taxonomy of marine species of Agrobacterium.
* Silicibacter (Petursdottir and Kristjansson 1999), * Ruegeria (Uchino et al. 1999 emend. Yi et al. 2007), * Ruegeria (Uchino et al. 1999 emend. Martens et al. 2006)
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