Name: Halobacteriaceae Gibbons 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Halobacterium, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Halobacteriaceae, the Halobacterium family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Halobacterium Elazari-Volcani 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)

Original publication: Gibbons NE. Family V. Halobacteriaceae. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 8th ed., The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 269-272.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Gupta et al. 2015 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.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the removal of 8 genera from the family.
    • This emendation was not found in the expected IJSEM notification list.
  • Gupta et al. 2016 Gupta RS, Naushad S, Fabros R, Adeolu M. Erratum to: 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; 109:1521-1523. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 25. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:7-8.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 9 genera in the family.

• Notes:
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Haloarcula Torreblanca et al. 1986 to this family. 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.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Halococcus Schoop 1935 (Approved Lists 1980) to this family. Publication: Grant WD. Genus IV. Halococcus Schoop 1935a, 817AL. 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. 311-314.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Haloferax Torreblanca et al. 1986 to this family. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. 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. 119-166.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Halogeometricum Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 1998 to this family. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. 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. 119-166.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Halorhabdus Wainø et al. 2000 to this family. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. 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. 119-166.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Halorubrum McGenity and Grant 1996 to this family. Publication: McGenity TJ, Grant WD. Genus VII. Halorubrum McGenity and Grant 1996, 362VP (Effective publication: McGenity and Grant 1995, 241). 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. 320-324.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Haloterrigena Ventosa et al. 1999 to this family. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. 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. 119-166.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Natrialba Kamekura and Dyall-Smith 1996 to this family. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. 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. 119-166.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Natrinema McGenity et al. 1998 to this family. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. 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. 119-166.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Natronobacterium Tindall et al. 1984 to this family. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. 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. 119-166.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Natronococcus Tindall et al. 1984 to this family. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. 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. 119-166.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Natronorubrum Xu et al. 1999 to this family. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. 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. 119-166.
  • Cui and Qiu (2014) assigned the genus Salinarubrum (sic) Cui and Qiu 2014 to this family. Publication: Cui HL, Qiu XX. Salinarubrum litoreum gen. nov., sp. nov.: a new member of the family Halobacteriaceae isolated from Chinese marine solar salterns. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 105:135-141.
  • McDuff et al. (2016) assigned the genus "Tourova" to this family. Publication: McDuff S, King GM, Neupane S, Myers MR. Isolation and characterization of extremely halophilic CO-oxidizing Euryarchaeota from hypersaline cinders, sediments and soils and description of a novel CO oxidizer, Haloferax namakaokahaiae Mke2.3T, sp. nov. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2016; 92:fiw028.
  • The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Pseudomonadaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Elazari-Volcani B. Genus XII. Halobacterium Elazari-Volcani, 1940. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, seventh edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 207-212.
  • Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 1997. Publication: Oren A, Ventosa A, Grant WD. Proposed Minimal Standards for Description of New Taxa in the Order Halobacteriales. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 1997; 47:233-238.
  • 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. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:289-290.
  • 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: Farmer Iii JJ, Holmes B. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Aeromonadaceae, Vibrionaceae and related organisms. Minutes of the meetings, 6 August 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2009; 59:2638-2640.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Imhoff JF, Madigan MT. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of phototrophic bacteria. Minutes of the Meetings, 28 August 2000, Barcelona, Spain. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2002; 52:2335-2336.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Oren A, Ventosa A. International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae. Minutes of the meetings, 16 August 1999, Sydney, Australia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1405-1407.
  • 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 meeting 30 June 2010, Beijing, China. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2010; 60:2257-2259.
  • 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 Halobacteriaceae and Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halomonadaceae Minutes of the joint open meeting, 6 September 2011, Sapporo, Japan. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2011; 61:2792-2795.
  • 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. Minutes of the closed meeting, 23 May 2016, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4289.
  • 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.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Ventosa A, Oren A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halomonadaceae, Minutes of the closed meeting, 23 May 2016, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4290.
  • 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, 31 July 2014, Montreal, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3915-3918.
  • 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 Halomonadaceae: minutes of the closed meeting, 31 July 2014, Montreal, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3914.
  • 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: minutes of the closed meeting, 31 July 2014, Montreal, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3913.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: . International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:289-290.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: A. Oren AV. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes; Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2008; 58:2465-2467.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Holmes B, Farmer Iii JJ. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes; Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Aeromonadaceae, Vibrionaceae and related organisms: Minutes of the meetings, 6 August 2008, Istanbul, Turkey. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2638-2640.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Nair GB, Holmes B. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:289-290.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: J. J. Farmer BH. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes; Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Aeromonadaceae, Vibrionaceae and related organisms. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2009; 59:2638-2640.
  • Recommended reviewers for taxonomic proposals in this group are the corresponding authors of Shimane et al. (2011), Cui et al. (2012), Han and Cui (2020), Makhdoumi-Kakhki et al. (2012), Mehrshad et al. (2016).
  • Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 1997. Publication: Oren A, Ventosa A, Grant WD. Proposed Minimal Standards for Description of New Taxa in the Order Halobacteriales. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 1997; 47:233-238.
  • This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: A. Oren AV. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes; Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2008; 58:2465-2467.
  • P. DasSarma and S. DasSarma 2008 [1], propose to rename the family Halobacteriaceae as "Haloarchaeaceae", to reflect its membership in the archaeal rather than the bacterial domain. Publication: DasSarma P, DasSarma S. On the origin of prokaryotic "species": the taxonomy of halophilic Archaea. Saline Syst 2008; 4:5.
  • This change is in violation of the General Considerations, Principles and Rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria [2], and it not validly published. Publication: Oren A. Nomenclature and taxonomy of halophilic archaea--comments on the proposal by DasSarma and DasSarma for nomenclatural changes within the order Halobacteriales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2245-2246.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 24
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 24
Total number of child taxa: 27

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Haladaptatus Savage et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
    Halalkalicoccus Xue et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
    Halanaeroarchaeum Sorokin et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
    Halarchaeum Minegishi et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
    Haloarchaeobius Makhdoumi-Kakhki et al. 2012	validly published	correct name
    Halobacterium Elazari-Volcani 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    [Halobonum]	artificial parent node of Candidatus species that lack a genus description
    Halocalculus Minegishi et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Halocatena Verma et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
    Halodesulfurarchaeum Sorokin et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    [Haloectosymbiotes]	artificial parent node of Candidatus species that lack a genus description
    Halomarina Inoue et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
    Halomicrococcus Chen et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
    Halorubellus Cui et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Halorussus Cui et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Halosiccatus Mehrshad et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
    Halostella Song et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
    Halovarius Mehrshad et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Halovenus Makhdoumi-Kakhki et al. 2012	validly published	correct name
    "Candidatus Nanopetramus" Crits-Christoph et al. 2016	not validly published
    Natribaculum Liu et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Natronoarchaeum Shimane et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
    Natronomonas Kamekura et al. 1997	validly published	correct name
    Salarchaeum Shimane et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
    Salinibaculum Han and Cui 2020	validly published	correct name
    Salinirubellus Hou et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Salinirubrum corrig. Cui and Qiu 2014	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Halobacteriales Grant and Larsen 1989

Assigned by: 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.

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