Family Natronomonadaceae

Name: Natronomonadaceae Zhu et al. 2025

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: Na.tro.no.mo.na.da’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Natronomonas, the type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Natronomonadaceae, the family the nomenclatural type of which is the genus Natronomonas

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: na-tro-no-mo-na-DA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Natronomonas Kamekura et al. 1997

Effective publication: Zhu LR, Mao YL, Hu Y, Sun YP, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based taxonomy of the family Haloarculaceae, proposal of Natronomonadaceae fam. nov., and description of four novel halophilic archaea from two saline lakes and a marine solar saltern. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126592. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 224. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6801.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Halobacteriaceae Gibbons 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Haladaptataceae Cui et al. 2023	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Halorubellaceae Cui et al. 2023	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Haladaptataceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Halobacteriaceae Gibbons 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Zhu et al. (2025) assigned the genus Salinirubellus Hou et al. 2018 to this family. Publication: Zhu LR, Mao YL, Hu Y, Sun YP, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based taxonomy of the family Haloarculaceae, proposal of Natronomonadaceae fam. nov., and description of four novel halophilic archaea from two saline lakes and a marine solar saltern. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126592. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Zhu et al. (2025) assigned the genus Halocatena Verma et al. 2020 to this family. Publication: Zhu LR, Mao YL, Hu Y, Sun YP, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based taxonomy of the family Haloarculaceae, proposal of Natronomonadaceae fam. nov., and description of four novel halophilic archaea from two saline lakes and a marine solar saltern. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126592. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Zhu et al. (2025) assigned the genus Haloglomus Durán-Viseras et al. 2020 to this family. Publication: Zhu LR, Mao YL, Hu Y, Sun YP, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based taxonomy of the family Haloarculaceae, proposal of Natronomonadaceae fam. nov., and description of four novel halophilic archaea from two saline lakes and a marine solar saltern. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126592. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Zhu et al. (2025) assigned the genus Halomarina Inoue et al. 2011 to this family. Publication: Zhu LR, Mao YL, Hu Y, Sun YP, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based taxonomy of the family Haloarculaceae, proposal of Natronomonadaceae fam. nov., and description of four novel halophilic archaea from two saline lakes and a marine solar saltern. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126592. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Zhu et al. (2025) assigned the genus Natronomonas Kamekura et al. 1997 to this family. Publication: Zhu LR, Mao YL, Hu Y, Sun YP, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based taxonomy of the family Haloarculaceae, proposal of Natronomonadaceae fam. nov., and description of four novel halophilic archaea from two saline lakes and a marine solar saltern. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126592. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Zhu et al. (2025) assigned the genus Halosegnis Durán-Viseras et al. 2022 to this family. Publication: Zhu LR, Mao YL, Hu Y, Sun YP, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based taxonomy of the family Haloarculaceae, proposal of Natronomonadaceae fam. nov., and description of four novel halophilic archaea from two saline lakes and a marine solar saltern. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126592. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Zhu et al. (2025) assigned the genus Halorarius Sun et al. 2023 to this family. Publication: Zhu LR, Mao YL, Hu Y, Sun YP, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based taxonomy of the family Haloarculaceae, proposal of Natronomonadaceae fam. nov., and description of four novel halophilic archaea from two saline lakes and a marine solar saltern. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126592. 🇨🇳
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Halobacteriaceae Gibbons 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Burns DG, Janssen PH, Itoh T, Minegishi H, Usami R, Kamekura M, Dyall-Smith ML. Natronomonas moolapensis sp. nov., non-alkaliphilic isolates recovered from a solar saltern crystallizer pond, and emended description of the genus Natronomonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1173-1176. 🇩🇪
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Haloarculaceae Gupta et al. 2016. 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. 🇨🇳
  • 🧔 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, 25 November 2025, Oaxaca, Mexico. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:7065. 🇮🇱
  • ❗ Natronomonadaceae is the correct name instead if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

Parent taxon: Halobacteriales Grant and Larsen 1989

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — 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. 🇨🇦

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