Name: Halovivax asiaticus Castillo et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.si.a’ti.cus. N.L. masc. adj. asiaticus, pertaining to Asia, where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CECT 7098; CGMCC 1.4248; EJ-46; JCM 14624

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB663452 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Castillo AM, Gutierrez MC, Kamekura M, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa A. Halovivax asiaticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from Inner Mongolia, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:765-770.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1461-1462.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Halovivax Castillo et al. 2006. Publication: Castillo AM, Gutierrez MC, Kamekura M, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa A. Halovivax asiaticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from Inner Mongolia, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:765-770.
  • 😷 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: Halovivax Castillo et al. 2006

Assigned by: Castillo AM, Gutierrez MC, Kamekura M, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa A. Halovivax asiaticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from Inner Mongolia, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:765-770.

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Record number: 783985