Name: Ornithinicoccus halotolerans Zhang et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ha.lo.to’le.rans. Gr. masc. n. hals, salt; L. pres. part. tolerans, tolerating; N.L. part. adj. halotolerans, referring to the ability to tolerate high salt concentrations

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.14989; EGI 80423; KCTC 39700

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KT734857 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zhang YG, Wang HF, Yang LL, Guo JW, Xiao M, Huang MJ, Nabil Hozzein W, Li WJ. Ornithinicoccus halotolerans sp. nov., and emended description of the genus Ornithinicoccus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1894-1899.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2467-2468.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😢 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.08143 (N = 8).
  • 😷 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.
  • 🧍 In the species description of the original publication by Zhang et al. 2016, the collection number of the type strain is mistakenly given as CGMCC 4.7225 (type strain of Phytoactinopolyspora alkaliphila sp. nov.). Publication: Zhang YG, Lu XH, Ding YB, Zhou XK, Li L, Guo JW, Wang HF, Duan YQ, Li WJ. Phytoactinopolyspora alkaliphila sp. nov., an alkaliphilic actinomycete isolated from a saline-alkaline soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2058-2063.

Parent taxon: Ornithinicoccus Groth et al. 1999

Assigned by: Zhang YG, Wang HF, Yang LL, Guo JW, Xiao M, Huang MJ, Nabil Hozzein W, Li WJ. Ornithinicoccus halotolerans sp. nov., and emended description of the genus Ornithinicoccus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1894-1899.

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