Name: Acidihalobacter Cárdenas et al. 2015

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.ci.di.ha.lo.bac’ter. L. neut. adj. acidum, an acid; from L. masc. adj. acidus, sour; Gr. masc. n. hals, sea, salt; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Acidihalobacter, an acid-loving, salt-loving rod

Gender: masculine (stem: Acidihalobacter-)

Type species: Acidihalobacter prosperus Cárdenas et al. 2015

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Pablo Cardenas J, Ortiz R, Norris PR, Watkin E, Holmes DS. Reclassification of 'Thiobacillus prosperus' Huber and Stetter 1989 as Acidihalobacter prosperus gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Ectothiorhodospiraceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3641-3644.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Acidihalobacteraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Acidihalobacteraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Huber H, Stetter KO. Thiobacillus prosperus sp. nov., represents a new group of halotolerant metal-mobilizing bacteria isolated from a marine geothermal field. Arch. Microbiol. 1989; 151:479-485.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Khaleque et al. (2020). 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 0.04699 (N = 4).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 5; JCM: 4.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Acidihalobacter aeolianus Khaleque et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Acidihalobacter ferrooxidans" Brenner et al. 2005	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Acidihalobacter ferrooxydans Khaleque et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acidihalobacter prosperus Cárdenas et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Acidihalobacter yilgarnensis Khaleque et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Ectothiorhodospiraceae Imhoff 1984

Assigned by: Pablo Cardenas J, Ortiz R, Norris PR, Watkin E, Holmes DS. Reclassification of 'Thiobacillus prosperus' Huber and Stetter 1989 as Acidihalobacter prosperus gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Ectothiorhodospiraceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3641-3644.

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