Name: Alkalibacillus halophilus Tian et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ha.lo’phi.lus. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt; N.L. masc. adj. suff. -philus, friend, loving; from Gr. masc. adj. philos, on; N.L. masc. adj. halophilus, salt-loving

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 17369; KCTC 3990; YIM 12

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: DQ359731 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Tian XP, Dastager SG, Lee JC, Tang SK, Zhang YQ, Park DJ, Kim CJ, Li WJ. Alkalibacillus halophilus sp. nov., a new halophilic species isolated from hypersaline soil in Xin-Jiang province, China. Syst Appl Microbiol 2007; 30:268-272.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 129. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2129-2130.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 In the paper by Tian et al. 2009, the GenBank accession number for the sequence of the type strain is erroneously cited as DQ377742. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

Parent taxon: Alkalibacillus Jeon et al. 2005

Assigned by: Tian XP, Dastager SG, Lee JC, Tang SK, Zhang YQ, Park DJ, Kim CJ, Li WJ. Alkalibacillus halophilus sp. nov., a new halophilic species isolated from hypersaline soil in Xin-Jiang province, China. Syst Appl Microbiol 2007; 30:268-272.

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