Name: Halorubrobacterium Kamekura and Dyall-Smith 1996

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ha.lo.ru.bro.bac.te’ri.um. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt; L. masc. adj. ruber, brum, red; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, rod; N.L. neut. n. Halorubrobacterium, salt (-requiring) and red bacterium

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Halorubrobacteri-), ha-lo-ru-bro-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: Halorubrobacterium saccharovorum (Tomlinson and Hochstein 1977) Kamekura and Dyall-Smith 1996

Effective publication: Kamekura M, Dyall-Smith ML. Taxonomy of the family Halobacteriaceae and the description of two new genera Halorubrobacterium and Natrialba. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 1995; 41:333-350.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 57. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:625-626.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Halorubrum McGenity and Grant 1996

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Halorubrum McGenity and Grant 1996	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Gupta et al. (2016) assigned this genus to the family Halorubraceae Gupta et al. 2016. Publication: Gupta RS, Naushad S, Fabros R, Adeolu M. A phylogenomic reappraisal of family-level divisions within the class Halobacteria: proposal to divide the order Halobacteriales into the families Halobacteriaceae, Haloarculaceae fam. nov., and Halococcaceae fam. nov., and the order Haloferacales into the families, Haloferacaceae and Halorubraceae fam nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:565-587.
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Halorubrum McGenity and Grant 1996. Publication: McGenity TJ, Grant WD. Transfer of Halobacterium saccharovorum, Halobacterium sodomense, Halobacterium trapanicum NRC 34021 and Halobacterium lacusprofundi to the genus Halorubrum gen. nov., as Halorubrum saccharovorum comb. nov., Halorubrum sodomense comb. nov., Halorubrum trapanicum comb. nov., and Halorubrum lacusprofundi comb. nov. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1995; 18:237-243.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Halmubrobacterium"; "Halmulnobacterium"; "Halorbrobacterium"; "Halorubrobactmum"; "Halorubrobpcte"; "Halorubrobucterium"; "Halorubrohucterium"; "Halorulwobacterium".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 7; CIP: 6; DSM: 5; VKM: 4; ATCC: 4; NCIMB: 3; IFO: 2; NBRC: 2; UQM: 1; CGMCC: 1.
  • 🧍 Later homonym of Halorubrum McGenity and Grant 1996 (IJSB 46:326), which has priority. Publication: Artiushin S, Minion FC. Arbitrarily primed PCR analysis of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae field isolates demonstrates genetic heterogeneity. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:324-328.
  • 🧍 See also: Publication: Oren A, Ventosa A. A proposal for the transfer of Halorubrobacterium distributum and Halorubrobacterium coriense to the genus Halorubrum as Halorubrum distributum comb. nov. and Halorubrum coriense comb. nov., respectively. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1996; 46:1180.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Halorubrobacterium coriense corrig. Kamekura and Dyall-Smith 1996	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym
    Halorubrobacterium coriensis Kamekura and Dyall-Smith 1996	inaccurate spelling and illegitimate	misspelling
    Halorubrobacterium distributum (Zvyagintseva and Tarasov 1989) Kamekura and Dyall-Smith 1996	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym
    Halorubrobacterium lacusprofundi (Franzmann et al. 1989) Kamekura and Dyall-Smith 1996	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym
    Halorubrobacterium saccharovorum (Tomlinson and Hochstein 1977) Kamekura and Dyall-Smith 1996	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym
    Halorubrobacterium sodomense (Oren 1983) Kamekura and Dyall-Smith 1996	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym

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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