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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Methanohalophilus profundi

Name: Methanohalophilus profundi L'Haridon et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pro.fun’di. L. gen. neut. n. profundi, of the depth of the sea

Pronunciation, gender: pro-FUN-di, masculine

Type strain: DSM 108854; JCM 32768; SLHTYRO; UBOCC M-3308

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MH223463 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: L'Haridon S, Haroun H, Corre E, Roussel E, Chalopin M, Pignet P, Baliere C, la Cono V, Jebbar M, Yakimov M, et al. Methanohalophilus profundi sp. nov., a methylotrophic halophilic piezophilic methanogen isolated from a deep hypersaline anoxic basin. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 43:126107.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 198. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4688.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Methanohalophilus Paterek and Smith 1988

Assigned by: L'Haridon S, Haroun H, Corre E, Roussel E, Chalopin M, Pignet P, Baliere C, la Cono V, Jebbar M, Yakimov M, et al. Methanohalophilus profundi sp. nov., a methylotrophic halophilic piezophilic methanogen isolated from a deep hypersaline anoxic basin. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 43:126107.

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Record number: 18995
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