Name: Ruoffia halotolerans Fotedar et al. 2021

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, salt-tolerating

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCUG 70701; INB8; LMG 30291; QCC B60/17

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16S rRNA gene: KU747974 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Fotedar R, Sankaranarayanan K, Caldwell ME, Zeyara A, Al Malki A, Kaul R, Al Shamari H, Ali M, Al Marri M, Lawson PA. Reclassification of Facklamia ignava, Facklamia sourekii and Facklamia tabacinasalis as Falseniella ignava gen. nov., comb. nov., Hutsoniella sourekii gen. nov., comb. nov., and Ruoffia tabacinasalis gen. nov., comb. nov., and description of Ruoffia halotolerans sp. nov., isolated from hypersaline Inland Sea of Qatar. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2021; 114:1181-1193.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 202. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5096.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: orphaned species

• Notes:
  • ❗ Ruoffia halotolerans is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Ruoffia.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Ruoffia Fotedar et al. 2021

Assigned by: Fotedar R, Sankaranarayanan K, Caldwell ME, Zeyara A, Al Malki A, Kaul R, Al Shamari H, Ali M, Al Marri M, Lawson PA. Reclassification of Facklamia ignava, Facklamia sourekii and Facklamia tabacinasalis as Falseniella ignava gen. nov., comb. nov., Hutsoniella sourekii gen. nov., comb. nov., and Ruoffia tabacinasalis gen. nov., comb. nov., and description of Ruoffia halotolerans sp. nov., isolated from hypersaline Inland Sea of Qatar. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2021; 114:1181-1193.

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Record number: 20042