Name: Halogeometricum Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 1998

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ha.lo.ge.o.me.tri.cum. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), the sea, salt; L. neut. adj. geometricum, geometrical; N.L. neut. n. Halogeometricum, salty geometrical shape

Gender: neuter (stem: Halogeometric-)

Type species: Halogeometricum borinquense Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 1998

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Montalvo-Rodriguez R, Vreeland RH, Oren A, Kessel M, Betancourt C, Lopez-Garriga J. Halogeometricum borinquense gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel halophilic archaeon from Puerto Rico. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:1305-1312.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:5-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Halosarcina Savage et al. 2008	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Cui et al. 2010 Cui HL, Yang X, Gao X, Li XY, Xu XW, Zhou YG, Liu HC, Zhou PJ. Halogeometricum rufum sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon from a marine solar saltern, and emended description of the genus Halogeometricum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2613-2617. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:221-222.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Halobacteriaceae Gibbons 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Balogeometricum"; "Halogeometncum"; "Halogeometri"; "Hawgwmetricum".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Oren A, Ventosa A. International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae. Minutes of the meetings, 16 August 1999, Sydney, Australia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1405-1407.
  • 🧔 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 Halobacteriaceae and Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halomonadaceae. Minutes of the meeting 30 June 2010, Beijing, China. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2010; 60:2257-2259.
  • 🧔 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 Halobacteriaceae and Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halomonadaceae Minutes of the joint open meeting, 6 September 2011, Sapporo, Japan. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2011; 61:2792-2795.
  • 🧔 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 Halobacteriaceae and subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halomonadaceae. Minutes of the joint open meeting, 23 May 2016, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4291-4295.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Cui et al. (2010). 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 0.05949 (N = 5).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 4; CGMCC: 2; KCTC: 1; DSM: 1; ATCC: 1.

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: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Halogeometricum borinquense Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halogeometricum limi (Cui et al. 2010) Qiu et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halogeometricum pallidum (Savage et al. 2008) Qiu et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halogeometricum rufum Cui et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Haloferacaceae Gupta et al. 2015

Assigned by: Gupta RS, Naushad S, Baker S. Phylogenomic analyses and molecular signatures for the class Halobacteria and its two major clades: a proposal for division of the class Halobacteria into an emended order Halobacteriales and two new orders, Haloferacales ord. nov. and Natrialbales ord. nov., containing the novel families Haloferacaceae fam. nov. and Natrialbaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1050-1069.

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