Name: Salinirubellus Hou et al. 2018

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sa.li.ni.ru.bel’lus. L. gen. fem. n. salinae, salterns, salt works; L. masc. adj. rubellus, reddish; N.L. masc. n. Salinirubellus, reddish salt organism from salt works

Gender: masculine (stem: Salinirubell-)

Type species: Salinirubellus salinus Hou et al. 2018

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Hou J, Zhao YJ, Zhu L, Cui HL. Salinirubellus salinus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a marine solar saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1874-1878.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2710-2711.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cui et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Haloarculaceae Gupta et al. 2016. Publication: 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.
  • 🧕 Zhu et al. (2025) assigned this genus to the family "Natronomonadaceae" Zhu et al. 2025. Publication: Zhu LR, Mao YL, Hu Y, Sun YP, Hou J, Cui HL. Genome-based taxonomy of the family Haloarculaceae, proposal of Natronomonadaceae fam. nov., and description of four novel halophilic archaea from two saline lakes and a marine solar saltern. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126592.
  • 🧔 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.
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 2; CGMCC: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Salinirubellus litoreus" Zhu et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Salinirubellus salinus Hou et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Halobacteriaceae Gibbons 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Hou J, Zhao YJ, Zhu L, Cui HL. Salinirubellus salinus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a marine solar saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1874-1878.

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