Name: Haloterrigena Ventosa et al. 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ha.lo.ter.ri’ge.na. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), the sea, salt; N.L. masc./fem. n. terrigena, born from the earth; N.L. fem. n. Haloterrigena, salt (-requiring) and born from the earth

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Haloterrigen-), ha-lo-ter-RI-ge-na

Type species: Haloterrigena turkmenica (Zvyagintseva and Tarasov 1989) Ventosa et al. 1999

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ventosa A, Gutierrez MC, Kamekura M, Dyall-Smith ML. Proposal to transfer Halococcus turkmenicus, Halobacterium trapanicum JCM 9743 and strain GSL-11 to Haloterrigena turkmenica gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:131-136. 🇪🇸

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 49, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:343-344.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Oren et al. 2009 Oren A, Arahal DR, Ventosa A. Emended descriptions of genera of the family Halobacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:637-642. 🇮🇱 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1259-1261.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 According to Minegishi et al. (2010), the genera Haloterrigena Ventosa et al. 1999 and Natrinema McGenity et al. 1998 might constitute a single genus.
  • De la Haba et al. 2021 de la Haba RR, Minegishi H, Kamekura M, Shimane Y, Ventosa A. Phylogenomics of Haloarchaea: The Controversy of the Genera Natrinema-Haloterrigena. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:740909. 🇪🇸
    Notes:
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 7 species from the genus.
    • 🧍 As of 2021-11-07 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Halococcus Schoop 1935 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Zvyagintseva IS, Tarasov AL. Extreme halophilic bacteria from saline soils. Mikrobiologiya 1987; 56:839-844.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Halotenigena"; "Haloterrigma"; "Naloterrigena".
  • 🧔 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. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:289-290. 🇮🇱
  • 🧔 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: 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: 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: . International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:289-290. 🇮🇱
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Nair GB, Holmes B. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:289-290. 🇮🇱
  • 🧔 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; Minutes of the meetings, 5 September 2004, Ljubljana, Slovenia. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2005; 55:543-544. 🇮🇱
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Dong et al. (2024). 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 0.06795 (N = 6).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 9; CGMCC: 8; DSM: 5; NBRC: 4; ATCC: 3; KCTC: 3; BCRC: 1; VKM: 1; MCCC: 1; CIP: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 14
Total number of child taxa: 14

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Haloterrigena alkaliphila Bao et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Haloterrigena daqingensis Wang et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Haloterrigena gelatinilytica Liu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Haloterrigena hispanica Romano et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Haloterrigena jeotgali Roh et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Haloterrigena limicola Cui et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Haloterrigena longa Cui et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Haloterrigena mahii Ding et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Haloterrigena saccharevitans Xu et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Haloterrigena salifodinae Chen et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Haloterrigena salina Gutiérrez et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Haloterrigena salinisoli Dong et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Haloterrigena thermotolerans Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Haloterrigena turkmenica (Zvyagintseva and Tarasov 1989) Ventosa et al. 1999	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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