Name: Halosiccatus urmianus Mehrshad et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ur.mi.a’nus. N.L. masc. adj. urmianus, of Urmia salt lake

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CECT 8793; DC8; IBRC M 10911

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KM596805 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Mehrshad M, Amoozegar MA, Makhdoumi A, Fazeli SAS, Farahani H, Asadi B, Schumann P, Ventosa A. Halosiccatus urmianus gen. nov., sp. nov., a haloarchaeon from a salt lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:725-730.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1916-1919.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Halomicrobium urmianum (Mehrshad et al. 2016) Xin et al. 2022

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Halomicrobium urmianum (Mehrshad et al. 2016) Xin et al. 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Halosiccatus Mehrshad et al. 2016. Publication: Mehrshad M, Amoozegar MA, Makhdoumi A, Fazeli SAS, Farahani H, Asadi B, Schumann P, Ventosa A. Halosiccatus urmianus gen. nov., sp. nov., a haloarchaeon from a salt lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:725-730.
  • ❗ Halosiccatus urmianus 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 Halosiccatus.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Halosiccatus Mehrshad et al. 2016

Assigned by: Mehrshad M, Amoozegar MA, Makhdoumi A, Fazeli SAS, Farahani H, Asadi B, Schumann P, Ventosa A. Halosiccatus urmianus gen. nov., sp. nov., a haloarchaeon from a salt lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:725-730.

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Record number: 793790