Name: Halopiger Gutiérrez et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ha.lo.pi’ger. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt; L. masc. adj. piger, lazy; N.L. masc. n. Halopiger, lazy halophile, referring to the slow growth under laboratory conditions

Gender: masculine (stem: Halopigr-)

Type species: Halopiger xanaduensis Gutiérrez et al. 2007

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gutierrez MC, Castillo AM, Kamekura M, Xue Y, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa A. Halopiger xanaduensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from saline Lake Shangmatala in Inner Mongolia, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1402-1407.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2189-2190.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Halobacteriaceae Gibbons 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Halpiger".
  • 🧔 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.
  • 🧔 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 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.
  • 🧔 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, 31 July 2014, Montreal, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3915-3918.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Ikram et al. (2014), De la Haba et al. (2021). 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 0.07252 (N = 4).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 7; JCM: 4; CGMCC: 2; CECT: 1; KCTC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Halopiger aswanensis Hezayen et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halopiger djelfamassiliensis Hassani et al. 2016	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Halopiger djelfimassiliensis corrig. Hassani et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halopiger goleamassiliensis Ikram et al. 2016	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Halopiger goleimassiliensis corrig. Ikram et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halopiger salifodinae Zhang et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Halopiger thermotolerans Minegishi et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halopiger xanaduensis Gutiérrez et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Natrialbaceae 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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