Name: Dehalobacter Holliger et al. 1998

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: De.ha.lo.bac’ter. L. prep. de, from; Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), the sea, salt; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; from Gr. neut. dim. n. baktêrion, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Dehalobacter, a halogen-removing, rod-shaped bacterium

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Dehalobacter-), de-ha-lo-BAK-ter

Type species: Dehalobacter restrictus Holliger et al. 1998

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Holliger C, Hahn D, Harmsen H, Ludwig W, Schumacher W, Tindall B, Vazquez F, Weiss N, Zehnder AJ. Dehalobacter restrictus gen. nov. and sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetra- and trichloroethene in an anaerobic respiration. Arch Microbiol 1998; 169:313-321.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 66. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:631-632.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 De Vos et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the family Peptococcaceae Rogosa 1971 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Class I. Bacilli class nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 19-20.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Dehalobacter alkaniphilus" Bulka et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Dehalobacter restrictus Holliger et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Desulfitobacteriaceae Stackebrandt 2020

Assigned by: Stackebrandt E. The emended family Peptococcaceae and description of the families Desulfitobacteriaceae, Desulfotomaculaceae, and Thermincolaceae. In: Rosenberg E, DeLong E, Lory S, Stacke- brandt E, Thompson F (eds), The Prokaryotes., Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2014, p. 286-290.

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