Genus Salinisphaera

Name: Salinisphaera Antunes et al. 2003

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Sa.li.ni.sphae’ra. N.L. masc. adj. salinus, saline; Gr. fem. n. sphaîra, a sphere; N.L. fem. n. Salinisphaera, coccoid microorganism, capable of growth at high salt

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Salinisphaer-), sa-li-ni-SP^HA͡E-ra

Type species: Salinisphaera shabanensis Antunes et al. 2003

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Antunes A, Eder W, Fareleira P, Santos H, Huber R. Salinisphaera shabanensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel, moderately halophilic bacterium from the brine-seawater interface of the Shaban Deep, Red Sea. Extremophiles 2003; 7:29-34. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 93. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1219-1220.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Crespo-Medina et al. 2009 Crespo-Medina M, Chatziefthimiou A, Cruz-Matos R, Perez-Rodriguez I, Barkay T, Lutz RA, Starovoytov V, Vetriani C. Salinisphaera hydrothermalis sp. nov., a mesophilic, halotolerant, facultatively autotrophic, thiosulfate-oxidizing gammaproteobacterium from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and emended description of the genus Salinisphaera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1497-1503. 🇺🇸 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2131-2132.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Shimane et al. 2013 Shimane Y, Tsuruwaka Y, Miyazaki M, Mori K, Minegishi H, Echigo A, Ohta Y, Maruyama T, Grant WD, Hatada Y. Salinisphaera japonica sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from the surface of a deep-sea fish, Malacocottus gibber, and emended description of the genus Salinisphaera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2180-2185. 🇯🇵 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3135-3137.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
    • 🧍 In the paper by Shimane et al. 2013, "Emended description of the genus Salinisphaera Antunes et al. 2003" is erroneously cited as "Emended description of the genus Salinisphaera Crespo-Medina et al. 2009".

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Salinisphaeraceae Naushad et al. 2015. Publication: Naushad S, Adeolu M, Wong S, Sohail M, Schellhorn HE, Gupta RS. A phylogenomic and molecular marker based taxonomic framework for the order Xanthomonadales: proposal to transfer the families Algiphilaceae and Solimonadaceae to the order Nevskiales ord. nov. and to create a new family within the order Xanthomonadales, the family Rhodanobacteraceae fam. nov., containing the genus Rhodanobacter and its closest relatives. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:467-485. 🇨🇦
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 5; DSM: 4; KCTC: 2; CCTCC: 1; CCMM: 1; KCCM: 1; CECT: 1; MCCC: 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: 7
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Salinisphaera aquimarina Tang et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Salinisphaera dokdonensis Bae et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Salinisphaera halophila Zhang et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Salinisphaera hydrothermalis Crespo-Medina et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Salinisphaera japonica Shimane et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Salinisphaera orenii Park et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Salinisphaera shabanensis Antunes et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Salinisphaeraceae Naushad et al. 2015

Assigned by: Naushad S, Adeolu M, Wong S, Sohail M, Schellhorn HE, Gupta RS. A phylogenomic and molecular marker based taxonomic framework for the order Xanthomonadales: proposal to transfer the families Algiphilaceae and Solimonadaceae to the order Nevskiales ord. nov. and to create a new family within the order Xanthomonadales, the family Rhodanobacteraceae fam. nov., containing the genus Rhodanobacter and its closest relatives. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:467-485. 🇨🇦

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