Name: Cyclobacterium halophilum Shahinpei et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ha.lo’phi.lum. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt (may keep -o); N.L. adj. philus -a -um, friend, loving; from Gr. adj. philos -ê -on, loving; N.L. neut. adj. halophilum, salt-loving

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CECT 8341; GASx41; IBRC M 10761

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KF601245 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Shahinpei A, Amoozegar MA, Sepahy AA, Schumann P, Ventosa A. Cyclobacterium halophilum sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from a coastal-marine wetland. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1000-1005.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1827-1829.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Cyclobacterium xiamenense Chen et al. 2014

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Cyclobacterium xiamenense Chen et al. 2014	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ⏲ According to Shahinpei et al. (2020), this species is a later heterotypic synonym of Cyclobacterium xiamenense Chen et al. 2014. Publication: Shahinpei A, Amoozegar MA, Mirfeizi L, Nikou MM, Ventosa A, Sanchez-Porro C. Taxogenomics of the Genus Cyclobacterium: Cyclobacterium xiamenense and Cyclobacterium halophilum as Synonyms and Description of Cyclobacterium plantarum sp. nov. Microorganisms 2020; 8:0.
  • 🏢 Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 33. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:2-3.
  • ❗ Cyclobacterium halophilum is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Cyclobacterium.
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

Parent taxon: Cyclobacterium Raj and Maloy 1990

Assigned by: Shahinpei A, Amoozegar MA, Sepahy AA, Schumann P, Ventosa A. Cyclobacterium halophilum sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from a coastal-marine wetland. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1000-1005.

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