Name: Haloterrigena jeotgali Roh et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: je.ot.ga’li. N.L. gen. neut. n. jeotgali, of jeotgal, a traditional Korean fermented seafood

Gender: feminine

Type strain: A29; CECT 7218; DSM 18794; JCM 14585; KCTC 4020

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB663444 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Roh SW, Nam YD, Chang HW, Kim KH, Sung Y, Kim MS, Oh HM, Bae JW. Haloterrigena jeotgali sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon from salt-fermented food. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2359-2363.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2921-2922.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Natrinema thermotolerans (Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 2000) de la Haba et al. 2022

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Haloterrigena thermotolerans Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 2000	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Natrinema thermotolerans (Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 2000) de la Haba et al. 2022	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Natrinema thermotolerans" (Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 2000) Rinke et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • ⏲ According to De la Haba et al. (2021), this species is a later heterotypic synonym of "Natrinema thermotolerans" (Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 2000) Rinke et al. 2021. Publication: de la Haba RR, Minegishi H, Kamekura M, Shimane Y, Ventosa A. Phylogenomics of Haloarchaea: The Controversy of the Genera Natrinema-Haloterrigena. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:740909.
  • ⏲ According to De la Haba et al. (2021), this species is a later heterotypic synonym of Haloterrigena thermotolerans Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 2000. Publication: de la Haba RR, Minegishi H, Kamekura M, Shimane Y, Ventosa A. Phylogenomics of Haloarchaea: The Controversy of the Genera Natrinema-Haloterrigena. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:740909.
  • ⏲ According to De la Haba et al. (2021), this species is a later heterotypic synonym of Natrinema thermotolerans (Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 2000) de la Haba et al. 2022. Publication: de la Haba RR, Minegishi H, Kamekura M, Shimane Y, Ventosa A. Phylogenomics of Haloarchaea: The Controversy of the Genera Natrinema-Haloterrigena. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:740909.
  • 🏢 Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 36. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5413.
  • ❗ Haloterrigena jeotgali 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 Haloterrigena.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Haloterrigena Ventosa et al. 1999

Assigned by: Roh SW, Nam YD, Chang HW, Kim KH, Sung Y, Kim MS, Oh HM, Bae JW. Haloterrigena jeotgali sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon from salt-fermented food. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2359-2363.

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