Name: Haloarculaceae Gupta et al. 2016

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Ha.lo.ar.cu.la’ce.ae. N.L. fem. dim. n. Haloarcula, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Haloarculaceae, the family whose nomenclatural type is the genus Haloarcula

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Haloarcula Torreblanca et al. 1986

Effective publication: Gupta RS, Naushad S, Fabros R, Adeolu M. A phylogenomic reappraisal of family-level divisions within the class Halobacteria: proposal to divide the order Halobacteriales into the families Halobacteriaceae, Haloarculaceae fam. nov., and Halococcaceae fam. nov., and the order Haloferacales into the families, Haloferacaceae and Halorubraceae fam nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:565-587.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 170. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2463-2466.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Cui et al. (2023) assigned the genus Salinirubellus Hou et al. 2018 to this family. Publication: Cui C, Han D, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based classification of the class Halobacteria and description of Haladaptataceae fam. nov. and Halorubellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5984.
  • 🧒 Cui et al. (2023) assigned the genus Halocatena Verma et al. 2020 to this family. Publication: Cui C, Han D, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based classification of the class Halobacteria and description of Haladaptataceae fam. nov. and Halorubellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5984.
  • 🧒 Cui et al. (2023) assigned the genus Salinibaculum Han and Cui 2020 to this family. Publication: Cui C, Han D, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based classification of the class Halobacteria and description of Haladaptataceae fam. nov. and Halorubellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5984.
  • 🧒 Cui et al. (2023) assigned the genus Halomarina Inoue et al. 2011 to this family. Publication: Cui C, Han D, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based classification of the class Halobacteria and description of Haladaptataceae fam. nov. and Halorubellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5984.
  • 🧒 Cui et al. (2023) assigned the genus Natronomonas Kamekura et al. 1997 to this family. Publication: Cui C, Han D, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based classification of the class Halobacteria and description of Haladaptataceae fam. nov. and Halorubellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5984.
  • 🧒 Cui et al. (2023) assigned the genus Halovenus Makhdoumi-Kakhki et al. 2012 to this family. Publication: Cui C, Han D, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based classification of the class Halobacteria and description of Haladaptataceae fam. nov. and Halorubellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5984.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Halobacteriaceae Gibbons 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Gupta RS, Naushad S, Baker S. Phylogenomic analyses and molecular signatures for the class Halobacteria and its two major clades: a proposal for division of the class Halobacteria into an emended order Halobacteriales and two new orders, Haloferacales ord. nov. and Natrialbales ord. nov., containing the novel families Haloferacaceae fam. nov. and Natrialbaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1050-1069.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Halobacteriaceae Gibbons 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Ventosa A. Genus II. Haloarcula Torreblanca, Rodriguez-Valera, Juez, Ventosa, Kamekura and Kates 1986b, 573VP (Effective publication: Torreblanca, Rodriguez-Valera, Juez, Ventosa, Kamekura and Kates 1986a, 98). In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 305-309.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Haloarcelaceae".
  • 🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2024. Publication: Cui HL, Hou J, Amoozegar MA, Dyall-Smith ML, de la Haba RR, Minegishi H, Montalvo-Rodriguez R, Oren A, Sanchez-Porro C, Ventosa A, et al. Proposed minimal standards for description of new taxa of the class Halobacteria. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6290.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Ventosa A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Halobacteria and Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Halomonadaceae. Minutes of the joint open meeting, 28 June 2022, Alicante, Spain. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5584.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Oren A, Ventosa A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteria and subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halomonadaceae. Minutes of the joint open meeting, 26 June 2019, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3657-3661.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Arahal DR, Oren A, Ventosa A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteria and Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halomonadaceae. Minutes of the joint open meeting, 11 July 2017, Valencia, Spain. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4279-4283.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Oren A, Ventosa A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae and subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halomonadaceae. Minutes of the joint open meeting, 23 May 2016, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4291-4295.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Mehrshad et al. (2016), Sun et al. (2023), Sorokin et al. (2021), Duran-Viseras et al. (2021). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 69; CGMCC: 51; CECT: 24; DSM: 13; CCM: 13; ATCC: 12; IBRC: 10; NBRC: 8; CIP: 4; VKM: 4.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 11
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13
Total number of child taxa: 14

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Halapricum Song et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Haloarcula Torreblanca et al. 1986	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Haloarcula" Javor et al. 1982	not validly published	synonym
    Halococcoides Sorokin et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Haloglomus Durán-Viseras et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halomicroarcula Echigo et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Halomicrobium Oren et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halorarius Sun et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halorhabdus Wainø et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halorientalis Cui et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halosegnis Durán-Viseras et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halosiccatus Mehrshad et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Halosimplex Vreeland et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Salinirussus Cui et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Halobacteriales Grant and Larsen 1989

Assigned by: Gupta RS, Naushad S, Fabros R, Adeolu M. A phylogenomic reappraisal of family-level divisions within the class Halobacteria: proposal to divide the order Halobacteriales into the families Halobacteriaceae, Haloarculaceae fam. nov., and Halococcaceae fam. nov., and the order Haloferacales into the families, Haloferacaceae and Halorubraceae fam nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:565-587.

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