Name: Halothiobacillus Kelly and Wood 2000

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ha.lo.thi.o.ba.cil’lus. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt; Gr. neut. n. theîon, brimstone, sulfur; L. masc. n. bacillus, a small rod; N.L. masc. n. Halothiobacillus, salt-loving sulfur rodlet

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Halothiobacill-), ha-lo-t^hi-o-ba-KIL-lus

Type species: Halothiobacillus neapolitanus (Parker 1957) Kelly and Wood 2000

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kelly DP, Wood AP. Reclassification of some species of Thiobacillus to the newly designated genera Acidithiobacillus gen. nov., Halothiobacillus gen. nov. and Thermithiobacillus gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:511-516.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:951-953.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Sievert et al. 2000 Sievert SM, Heidorn T, Kuever J. Halothiobacillus kellyi sp. nov., a mesophilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Aegean Sea, and emended description of the genus Halothiobacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1229-1237. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1419-1420.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Boden 2017 Boden R. Reclassification of Halothiobacillus hydrothermalis and Halothiobacillus halophilus to Guyparkeria gen. nov. in the Thioalkalibacteraceae fam. nov., with emended descriptions of the genus Halothiobacillus and family Halothiobacillaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3919-3928. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3-6.
    Notes:
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 2 species from the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Halothiobacillaceae Kelly and Wood 2005. Publication: Kelly DP, Wood AP. Family III. Halothiobacillaceae fam. nov. Kelly and Wood 2003. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 58.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Halothiobacillales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the order Halothiobacillales Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Halothiobacllus".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 4; ATCC: 2; JCM: 1; GDMCC: 1; CIP: 1; NCIMB: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
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
    Halothiobacillus diazotrophicus Dai et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halothiobacillus halophilus (Wood and Kelly 1995) Kelly and Wood 2000	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Halothiobacillus hydrothermalis (Durand et al. 1997) Kelly and Wood 2000	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Halothiobacillus kellyi Sievert et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halothiobacillus neapolitanus (Parker 1957) Kelly and Wood 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Halothiobacillaceae Kelly and Wood 2005

Assigned by: Kelly DP, Wood AP. Family III. Halothiobacillaceae fam. nov. Kelly and Wood 2003. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 58.

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