Name: Halohasta litchfieldiae Mou et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: litch.fi.el.di’a.e. N.L. gen. fem. n. litchfieldiae, of Litchfield, named after Carol D. Litchfield, a prominent microbial ecologist

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 22187; JCM 15066; tADL

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB935408 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Mou YZ, Qiu XX, Zhao ML, Cui HL, Oh D, Dyall-Smith ML. Halohasta litorea gen. nov. sp. nov., and Halohasta litchfieldiae sp. nov., isolated from the Daliang aquaculture farm, China and from Deep Lake, Antarctica, respectively. Extremophiles 2012; 16:895-901.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 152. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2365-2367.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😢 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.09310 (N = 15).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Halohasta Mou et al. 2013

Assigned by: Mou YZ, Qiu XX, Zhao ML, Cui HL, Oh D, Dyall-Smith ML. Halohasta litorea gen. nov. sp. nov., and Halohasta litchfieldiae sp. nov., isolated from the Daliang aquaculture farm, China and from Deep Lake, Antarctica, respectively. Extremophiles 2012; 16:895-901.

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