Name: Halomonadaceae Franzmann et al. 1989

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

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

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Halomonas Vreeland et al. 1980

Effective publication: Franzmann PD, Wehmeyer U, Stackebrandt E. Halomonadaceae fam. nov., a new family of the class Proteobacteria to accommodate the genera Halomonas and Deleya. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1988; 11:16-19.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 29. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:205-206.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Dobson and Franzmann 1996 Dobson SJ, Franzmann PD. Unification of the genera Deleya (Baumann et al. 1983), Halomonas (Vreeland et al. 1980), and Halovibrio (Fendrich 1988) and the species Paracoccus halodenitrificans (Robinson and Gibbons 1952) into a single genus, Halomonas, and placement of the genus Zymobacter in the family Halomonadaceae. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1996; 46:550-558. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 46, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:838.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 4 genera in the family.
  • Ntougias et al. 2007 Ntougias S, Zervakis GI, Fasseas C. Halotalea alkalilenta gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel osmotolerant and alkalitolerant bacterium from alkaline olive mill wastes, and emended description of the family Halomonadaceae Franzmann et al. 1989, emend. Dobson and Franzmann 1996. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1975-1983. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2727-2728.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 5 genera in the family.
  • Ben Ali Gam et al. 2007 Ben Ali Gam Z, Abdelkafi S, Casalot L, Tholozan JL, Oueslati R, Labat M. Modicisalibacter tunisiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic, moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from an oilfield-water injection sample, and emended description of the family Halomonadaceae Franzmann et al. 1989 emend Dobson and Franzmann 1996 emend. Ntougias et al. 2007. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2307-2313. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:3-4.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 6 genera in the family.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Liao et al. (2020) assigned this family to the order Pseudomonadales Orla-Jensen 1921 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Liao H, Lin X, Li Y, Qu M, Tian Y. Reclassification of the Taxonomic Framework of Orders Cellvibrionales, Oceanospirillales, Pseudomonadales, and Alteromonadales in Class Gammaproteobacteria through Phylogenomic Tree Analysis. mSystems 2020; 5:e00543-20.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Alcanivorax Yakimov 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Halomomadaceae".
  • 🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2007. Publication: Arahal DR, Vreeland RH, Litchfield CD, Mormile MR, Tindall BJ, Oren A, Bejar V, Quesada E, Ventosa A. Recommended minimal standards for describing new taxa of the family Halomonadaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2436-2446.
  • 🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2008. Publication: . Erratum. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2008; 58:2673.
  • 🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2008. Publication: Arahal DR, Quesada E, Mormile MR, Oren A, Ventosa A, Vreeland RH, Bejar V, Litchfield CD, Tindall BJ. Recommended minimal standards for describing new taxa of the family Halomonadaceae. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2008; 58:2673-2673.
  • 🖹 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. Minutes of the closed meeting, 12 May 2022, via Zoom. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5499.
  • 🧔 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: 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: Arahal DR, Ventosa A. International Committee on Systematics of ProkaryotesSubcommittee on the taxonomy of Halomonadaceae. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY 2008; 58:2670-2671.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Arahal DR, Oren A, Ventosa A. Corrigendum: 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 2021; 71:4884.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Arahal DR, Ventosa A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halomonadaceae. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2008; 58:2670-2671.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Leon et al. (2015). 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.03668 (N = 16).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 175; KCTC: 103; CIP: 72; CECT: 70; ATCC: 65; JCM: 63; CGMCC: 58; NBRC: 37; MCCC: 29; CCM: 23.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 14
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 22
Total number of child taxa: 24

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aidingimonas Wang et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Billgrantia de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Bisbaumannia de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Carnimonas Garriga et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Chromohalobacter Ventosa et al. 1989	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Cobetia Arahal et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Deleya Baumann et al. 1983	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Franzmannia de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Halomonas Vreeland et al. 1980	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halotalea Ntougias et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halovibrio Fendrich 1989	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Kushneria Sánchez-Porro et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Larsenia" Leon et al. 2014	not validly published	synonym (and no standing)
    Larsenimonas León et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Litchfieldella de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Modicisalibacter Ben Ali Gam et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Onishia de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Phytohalomonas" Liu et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Pistricoccus Xu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Salinicola Anan'ina et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Terasakiispira Zepeda et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Volcaniella Quesada et al. 1990	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Vreelandella de la Haba et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Zymobacter Okamoto et al. 1995	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Oceanospirillales Garrity et al. 2005

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order VIII. Oceanospirillales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 270.

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