Name: Salinibacter ruber Antón et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ru’ber. L. masc. adj. ruber, red

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CECT 5946; DSM 13855; M31

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF323500 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Anton J, Oren A, Benlloch S, Rodriguez-Valera F, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R. Salinibacter ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel, extremely halophilic member of the Bacteria from saltern crystallizer ponds. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:485-491.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:691-692.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Makhdoumi-Kakhki et al. 2012 Makhdoumi-Kakhki A, Amoozegar MA, Ventosa A. Salinibacter iranicus sp. nov. and Salinibacter luteus sp. nov., isolated from a salt lake, and emended descriptions of the genus Salinibacter and of Salinibacter ruber. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1521-1527. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2313-2314.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Salinibacter Antón et al. 2002. Publication: Anton J, Oren A, Benlloch S, Rodriguez-Valera F, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R. Salinibacter ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel, extremely halophilic member of the Bacteria from saltern crystallizer ponds. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:485-491.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 93 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 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: Salinibacter Antón et al. 2002

Assigned by: Anton J, Oren A, Benlloch S, Rodriguez-Valera F, Amann R, Rossello-Mora R. Salinibacter ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel, extremely halophilic member of the Bacteria from saltern crystallizer ponds. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:485-491.

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