Genus Halalkalibacillus

Name: Halalkalibacillus Echigo et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Hal.al.ka.li.ba.cil’lus. Gr. masc. n. hals, salt; Arabic masc. n. al-qalyi, soda ash; L. masc. n. bacillus, rod; N.L. masc. n. Halalkalibacillus, briny and alkaline media loving rods

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Halalkalibacill-), hal-al-ka-li-ba-KIL-lus

Type species: Halalkalibacillus halophilus Echigo et al. 2007

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Echigo A, Fukushima T, Mizuki T, Kamekura M, Usami R. Halalkalibacillus halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderately halophilic and alkaliphilic bacterium isolated from a non-saline soil sample in Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1081-1085. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1675-1676.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- He et al. 2020 He RH, Liu ZW, Yan YQ, Du ZJ. Halalkalibacillus sediminis sp. nov., isolated from sediment of sea cucumber culture pond. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1398-1403. 🇨🇳 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2967-2971.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Alkalibacillaceae 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. 🇦🇺
- 🧕 Li et al. (2024) assigned this genus to the family Amphibacillaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Li Y, Zhang D, Bo D, Peng D, Sun M, Zheng J. A taxonomic note on the order Caryophanales: description of 12 novel families and emended description of 21 families. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6539. 🇨🇳
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Halalkalibacilus".
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.01843 (N = 10).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: BH: 1; B: 1; DSM: 1; JCM: 1; MCCC: 1; KCTC: 1.

Subdivision:

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

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Halalkalibacillus halophilus Echigo et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Halalkalibacillus sediminis He et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Echigo A, Fukushima T, Mizuki T, Kamekura M, Usami R. Halalkalibacillus halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderately halophilic and alkaliphilic bacterium isolated from a non-saline soil sample in Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1081-1085. 🇯🇵

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