Genus Salegentibacter

Name: Salegentibacter McCammon and Bowman 2000

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sal.e.gen.ti.bac’ter. L. gen. masc. n. salis, salt; L. pres. part. egens, needy; Gr. neut. dim. n. baktêrion, rod; N.L. masc. n. Salegentibacter, salt-needy rod, referring to the high level of salt requirement

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Salegentibacter-), sal-e-gen-ti-BAK-ter

Type species: Salegentibacter salegens (Dobson et al. 1993) McCammon and Bowman 2000

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: McCammon SA, Bowman JP. Taxonomy of Antarctic Flavobacterium species: description of Flavobacterium gillisiae sp. nov., Flavobacterium tegetincola sp. nov., and Flavobacterium xanthum sp. nov., nom. rev. and reclassification of [Flavobacterium] salegens as Salegentibacter salegens gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1055-1063. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: 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.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Ying et al. 2007 Ying JY, Liu ZP, Wang BJ, Dai X, Yang SS, Liu SJ. Salegentibacter catena sp. nov., isolated from sediment of the South China Sea, and emended description of the genus Salegentibacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:219-222. 🇨🇳 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:898-899.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
- Siamphan and Kim 2014 Siamphan C, Kim W. Salegentibacter chungangensis sp. nov., isolated from a sea sand and emended description of the genus Salegentibacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1514-1519. 🇰🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2509-2511.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
- Lu et al. 2022 Lu H, Gao P, Phurbu D, Wu QL, Xing P. Salegentibacter lacus sp. nov. and Salegentibacter tibetensis sp. nov., isolated from hypersaline lakes on the Tibetan Plateau. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5202. 🇨🇳 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 72, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5292.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Flavobacterium Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Dobson SJ, Colwell RR, McMeekin TA, Franzmann PD. Direct sequencing of the polymerase chain reaction-amplified 16S rRNA gene of Flavobacterium gondwanense sp. nov. and Flavobacterium salegens sp. nov., two new species from a hypersaline Antarctic lake. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:77-83. 🇦🇺
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Salegntibacter"; "Salengentibacter"; "Saligentibacter".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Nedashkovskaya et al. (2010), Lian et al. (2021), Yoon et al. (2008). 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 0.03514 (N = 4).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 11; DSM: 9; LMG: 4; KMM: 4; CCUG: 4; GDMCC: 4; CIP: 2; NBRC: 2; MCCC: 2; CICC: 1.
- 🧍 The gender of the genus name is not provided in the paper by McCammon and Bowman 2000. According to Rule 65(2), Salegentibacter must be in the masculine gender. Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Christensen H, Goker M, Manaia CM, Moore ERB. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2025 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:6979. 🇮🇱

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 15
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 16
Total number of child taxa: 16

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Salegentibacter agarivorans Nedashkovskaya et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter catena Ying et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Salegentibacter chungangensis Siamphan and Kim 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter echinorum Xia et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter flavus Ivanova et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter haimaensis Wang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter holothuriorum Nedashkovskaya et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter lacus Lu et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter maritimus Lian et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter mishustinae Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter profundi Wang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter salarius Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter salegens (Dobson et al. 1993) McCammon and Bowman 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter salinarum Yoon et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter sediminis Liang et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Salegentibacter tibetensis Lu et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992

Assigned by: Bernardet JF, Nakagawa Y, Holmes B. Proposed minimal standards for describing new taxa of the family Flavobacteriaceae and emended description of the family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1049-1070. 🇫🇷

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