Name: Isoptericola halotolerans Zhang et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ha.lo.to’le.rans. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt; L. pres. part. tolerans, tolerating; N.L. part. adj. halotolerans, salt-tolerating, referring to the organism's ability to tolerate high salt concentrations

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 16376; JCM 13590; KCTC 19046; YIM 70177

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY789835 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zhang YQ, Schumann P, Li WJ, Chen GZ, Tian XP, Stackebrandt E, Xu LH, Jiang CL. Isoptericola halotolerans sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from saline soil from Qinghai Province, north-west China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1867-1870.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:7-9.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 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 8 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 See also: Publication: Hamedi J, Mohammadipanah F, Ventosa A. Systematic and biotechnological aspects of halophilic and halotolerant actinomycetes. Extremophiles 2013; 17:1-13.

Parent taxon: Isoptericola Stackebrandt et al. 2004

Assigned by: Zhang YQ, Schumann P, Li WJ, Chen GZ, Tian XP, Stackebrandt E, Xu LH, Jiang CL. Isoptericola halotolerans sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from saline soil from Qinghai Province, north-west China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1867-1870.

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