Name: Haloterrigena thermotolerans Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 2000

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ther.mo.to’le.rans. Gr. fem. adj. thermê, heat; L. pres. part. tolerans, tolerating; N.L. part. adj. thermotolerans, heat tolerating

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 700275; DSM 11552; JCM 11050; NBRC 102635; PR5

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16S rRNA gene: AB663449 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Montalvo-Rodriguez R, Lopez-Garriga J, Vreeland RH, Oren A, Ventosa A, Kamekura M. Haloterrigena thermotolerans sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon from Puerto Rico. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1065-1071.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1419-1420.

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 jeotgali Roh et al. 2009	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Natrinema thermotolerans (Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 2000) de la Haba et al. 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Natrinema thermotolerans" (Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 2000) Rinke et al. 2021	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • ⏰ According to De la Haba et al. (2021), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Haloterrigena jeotgali Roh et al. 2009. 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 thermotolerans 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 Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 12 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Haloterrigena Ventosa et al. 1999

Assigned by: Montalvo-Rodriguez R, Lopez-Garriga J, Vreeland RH, Oren A, Ventosa A, Kamekura M. Haloterrigena thermotolerans sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon from Puerto Rico. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1065-1071.

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Record number: 776822