Genus Salinibacterium
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 2
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Salinibacterium Han et al. 2003, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Salinibacterium amurskyense Han et al. 2003.
Etymology: L. n. salinum, salt-cellar; L. neut. n. bacterium, rod or staff and, in biology, a bacterium (so called because the first ones observed were rod-shaped); N.L. neut. n. Salinibacterium, a saline bacterium.
Valid publication: HAN (S.K.), NEDASHKOVSKAYA (O.I.), MIKHAILOV (V.V.), KIM (S.B.) and BAE (K.S.): Salinibacterium amurskyense gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel genus of the family Microbacteriaceae from the marine environment. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2003, 53, 2061-2066.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Salinibacterium amurskyense Han et al. 2003, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) JCM 12362 = KCTC 9931 = KMM 3673 = NBRC 100448.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AF539697.
Etymology: N.L. neut. adj. amurskyense, of or belonging to Amursky Bay, the geographical location where the organism was first isolated.
Valid publication: HAN (S.K.), NEDASHKOVSKAYA (O.I.), MIKHAILOV (V.V.), KIM (S.B.) and BAE (K.S.): Salinibacterium amurskyense gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel genus of the family Microbacteriaceae from the marine environment. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2003, 53, 2061-2066.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Salinibacterium xinjiangense Zhang et al. 2008, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) 0543 = CGMCC 1.5381 = JCM 13926.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: DQ515964.
Etymology: N.L. neut. adj. xinjiangense, of or pertaining to Xinjiang, where the type strain was isolated.
Valid publication: ZHANG (D.C.), LIU (H.C.), XIN (Y.H.), YU (Y.), ZHOU (P.J.) and ZHOU (Y.G.): Salinibacterium xinjiangense sp. nov., a psychrophilic bacterium isolated from the China No. 1 glacier. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2008, 58, 2739-2742.
Original article in IJSEM Online