Name: Nitritalea halalkaliphila Anil Kumar et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hal.al’ka.li.phi’la. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt; N.L. neut. n. alkali, alkali (indeclinable); N.L. fem. adj. suff. -phila, loving; from Gr. fem. adj. philê, friendly to, loving; N.L. fem. adj. halalkaliphila, loving salt and alkaline conditions

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 57665; DSM 46695; JCM 15946; LW7; NCCB 100279

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FM991866 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TN, Pavan Kumar P, Madhu S, Shivaji S. Nitritalea halalkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov., an alkaliphilic bacterium of the family 'Cyclobacteriaceae', phylum Bacteroidetes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2320-2325.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:4-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Nitritalea Anil Kumar et al. 2010. Publication: Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TN, Pavan Kumar P, Madhu S, Shivaji S. Nitritalea halalkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov., an alkaliphilic bacterium of the family 'Cyclobacteriaceae', phylum Bacteroidetes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2320-2325.
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hahnke et al. (2016). Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.

Parent taxon: Nitritalea Anil Kumar et al. 2010

Assigned by: Anil Kumar P, Srinivas TN, Pavan Kumar P, Madhu S, Shivaji S. Nitritalea halalkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov., an alkaliphilic bacterium of the family 'Cyclobacteriaceae', phylum Bacteroidetes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2320-2325.

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