Name: Halobium Mori et al. 2016

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ha.lo’bi.um. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt; Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Halobium, halophilic organism

Gender: neuter (stem: Halobi-)

Type species: Halobium palmae Mori et al. 2016

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Mori K, Nurcahyanto DA, Kawasaki H, Lisdiyanti P, Yopi, Suzuki KI. Halobium palmae gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from a solar saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3799-3804.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Mori et al. (2016) assigned this genus to the family Halorubraceae Gupta et al. 2016. Publication: Mori K, Nurcahyanto DA, Kawasaki H, Lisdiyanti P, Yopi, Suzuki KI. Halobium palmae gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from a solar saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3799-3804.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Halotium".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Oren A, 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, 26 June 2019, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3657-3661.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Arahal DR, Oren A, 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, 11 July 2017, Valencia, Spain. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4279-4283.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 1; CGMCC: 1; JCM: 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
    Halobium palmae Mori et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halobium salinum Li et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Haloferacaceae Gupta et al. 2015

Assigned by: 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.

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