Name: Salinisphaera orenii Park et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: oren’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. orenii, of Oren, named after Aharon Oren, in recognition of his study of halophilic micro-organisms

Gender: feminine

Type strain: JCM 17073; KCTC 23198; MK-B5

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16S rRNA gene: HM137558 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Park SJ, Cha IT, Kim SJ, Shin KS, Hong Y, Roh DH, Rhee SK. Salinisphaera orenii sp. nov., isolated from a solar saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1877-1883.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2555-2556.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Salinisphaera Antunes et al. 2003

Assigned by: Park SJ, Cha IT, Kim SJ, Shin KS, Hong Y, Roh DH, Rhee SK. Salinisphaera orenii sp. nov., isolated from a solar saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1877-1883.

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Record number: 790099