Genus Sporosalibacterium
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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).
Sporosalibacterium Rezgui et al. 2011, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Sporosalibacterium faouarense Rezgui et al. 2011.
Etymology: Gr. n. spora, a seed and, in bacteriology, a spore; L. n. sal salis, salt; L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. n. Sporosalibacterium, a moderately halophilic sporulated rod.
Valid publication: REZGUI (R.), BEN ALI GAM (Z.), BEN HAMED (S.), FARDEAU (M.L.), CAYOL (J.L.), MAAROUFI (A.) and LABAT (M.): Sporosalibacterium faouarense gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from oil-contaminated soil. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2011, 61, 99-104.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ Sporosalibacterium Rezgui et al. 2011 emend. Podosokorskaya et al. 2017.
Reference: PODOSOKORSKAYA, O. A., MERKEL, A. Y., HEERDEN, E. V., CASON, E. D., KOPITSYN, D. S., VASILIEVA, M., BONCH-OSMOLOVSKAYA, E. A. and KUBLANOV, I. V. 2017. Sporosalibacterium tautonense sp. nov., a thermotolerant, halophilic, hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a gold mine, and emended description of the genus Sporosalibacterium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 1457-1461.
Original article.
Sporosalibacterium faouarense Rezgui et al. 2011, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) SOL3f37 = DSM 21485 = JCM 15487.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: EU567322.
Etymology: N.L. neut. adj. faouarense, of or belonging to the El Faouar area in south Tunisia, where the type strain was isolated.
Valid publication: REZGUI (R.), BEN ALI GAM (Z.), BEN HAMED (S.), FARDEAU (M.L.), CAYOL (J.L.), MAAROUFI (A.) and LABAT (M.): Sporosalibacterium faouarense gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from oil-contaminated soil. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2011, 61, 99-104.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Sporosalibacterium tautonense Podosokorskaya et al. 2017, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) MRo-4=DSM 28179=VKM B-2948.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: KX371568.
Etymology: N.L. neut. adj. tautonense, from the TauTona gold mine in South Africa, where the type strain was isolated.
Source: Environmental.
Valid publication: PODOSOKORSKAYA, O. A., MERKEL, A. Y., HEERDEN, E. V., CASON, E. D., KOPITSYN, D. S., VASILIEVA, M., BONCH-OSMOLOVSKAYA, E. A. and KUBLANOV, I. V. 2017. Sporosalibacterium tautonense sp. nov., a thermotolerant, halophilic, hydrolytic bacterium isolated from a gold mine, and emended description of the genus Sporosalibacterium. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 67, 1457-1461.
Original article in IJSEM Online