Name: Halosarcina Savage et al. 2008

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ha.lo.sar.ci.na. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt; L. fem. n. sarcina, a package; N.L. fem. n. Halosarcina, a salt (-loving) package

Gender: feminine (stem: Halosarcin-)

Type species: Halosarcina pallida Savage et al. 2008

Valid publication: Savage KN, Krumholz LR, Oren A, Elshahed MS. Halosarcina pallida gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon from a low-salt, sulfide-rich spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:856-860.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1513-1514.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Halogeometricum Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 1998

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Halogeometricum Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 1998	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Cui et al. 2010 Cui HL, Gao X, Li XY, Xu XW, Zhou YG, Liu HC, Zhou PJ. Halosarcina limi sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon from a marine solar saltern, and emended description of the genus Halosarcina. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2462-3466. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:4-5.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• 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.
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Halogeometricum Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 1998. Publication: Qiu XX, Zhao ML, Han D, Zhang WJ, Dyall-Smith ML, Cui HL. Taxonomic study of the genera Halogeometricum and Halosarcina: transfer of Halosarcina limi and Halosarcina pallida to the genus Halogeometricum as Halogeometricum limi comb. nov. and Halogeometricum pallidum comb. nov., respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3915-3919.
  • 🧔 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.
  • ❗ Halosarcina is the correct name instead if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 2; CGMCC: 1; KCTC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
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
    Halosarcina limi Cui et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Halosarcina pallida Savage et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

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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