Name: Halegenticoccus Liu et al. 2020

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Hal.e.gen.ti.coc’cus. Gr. masc. n. hals, salt; L. pres. part. egens, needy; N.L. masc. n. coccus, a coccus; from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, a berry; N.L. masc. n. Halegenticoccus, the salt-needy coccus, referring to the high level of salt requirement

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Halegenticocc-), hal-e-gen-ti-KOK-kus

Type species: Halegenticoccus soli Liu et al. 2020

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Liu BB, Narsing Rao MP, Yin XQ, Li X, Salam N, Zhang Y, Alkhalifah DHM, Hozzein WN, Li WJ. Description of Halegenticoccus soli gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon isolated from a soil sample of Ebi lake. Extremophiles 2019; 23:521-528. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 191. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Halegenticocus".
  • 🧔 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. 🇮🇱
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 2; SYSU: 2; CGMCC: 2.

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
    Halegenticoccus soli Liu et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halegenticoccus tardaugens Liu et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Haloferacaceae Gupta et al. 2015

Assigned by: Liu BB, Narsing Rao MP, Yin XQ, Li X, Salam N, Zhang Y, Alkhalifah DHM, Hozzein WN, Li WJ. Description of Halegenticoccus soli gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon isolated from a soil sample of Ebi lake. Extremophiles 2019; 23:521-528. 🇨🇳

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Record number: 4894