Name: Haloprofundus Zhang et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ha.lo.pro.fun’dus. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt; L. masc. adj. profundus, deep; N.L. masc. n. Haloprofundus, salt organism from the deep sea

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Haloprofund-), ha-lo-pro-FUN-dus

Type species: Haloprofundus marisrubri Zhang et al. 2017

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zhang G, Gu J, Zhang R, Rashid M, Haroon MF, Xun W, Ruan Z, Dong X, Stingl U. Haloprofundus marisrubri gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from a brine-seawater interface. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:9-16.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:765-766.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Xu et al. 2019 Xu Q, Cui HL, Meng F. Haloprofundus halophilus sp. nov., isolated from the saline soil of Tarim Basin. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2019; 112:553-559. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 30. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1850-1851.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Li et al. 2022 Li SY, Xin YJ, Bao CX, Hou J, Cui HL. Haloprofundus salilacus sp. nov., Haloprofundus halobius sp. nov. and Haloprofundus salinisoli sp. nov.: three extremely halophilic archaea isolated from salt lake and saline soil. Extremophiles 2021; 26:6. Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 37. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5696.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 3 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧔 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 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.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Li et al. (2022). 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 BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CGMCC: 5; JCM: 5.

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Haloprofundus halobius Li et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Haloprofundus halophilus Xu et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Haloprofundus marisrubri Zhang et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Haloprofundus salilacus Li et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Haloprofundus salinisoli Li et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Haloferacaceae Gupta et al. 2015

Assigned by: Zhang G, Gu J, Zhang R, Rashid M, Haroon MF, Xun W, Ruan Z, Dong X, Stingl U. Haloprofundus marisrubri gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from a brine-seawater interface. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:9-16.

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