Name: Prauserella halophila Li et al. 2003

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ha.lo’phi.la. Gr. masc. n. hals (gen. halos), salt (may keep -o); N.L. fem. adj. suff. -phila, loving; N.L. fem. adj. halophila, salt-loving, referring to the ability to grow at high NaCl concentrations

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CCTCC AA 1015; DSM 44617; JCM 13023; YIM 90001

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF466190 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Li WJ, Xu P, Tang SK, Xu LH, Kroppenstedt RM, Stackebrandt E, Jiang CL. Prauserella halophila sp. nov. and Prauserella alba sp. nov., moderately halophilic actinomycetes from saline soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1545-1549.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:3-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.11848 (N = 22).
  • 😷 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 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 See also: Publication: Hamedi J, Mohammadipanah F, Ventosa A. Systematic and biotechnological aspects of halophilic and halotolerant actinomycetes. Extremophiles 2013; 17:1-13.
  • 🧍 The etymology of the first compound of the specific epithet should be Gr. n. hals halos, salt; not Gr. n. halo, salt as cited by Li et al. 2003. — The specific epithet halophila is a "N.L. fem. adj.", not a "N.L. gen. adj." as cited in the paper by Li et al. 2003. — In the paper by Li et al., the strain CCTCC AA 001015 is cited as CCTCC AA001015. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

Parent taxon: Prauserella Kim and Goodfellow 1999

Assigned by: Li WJ, Xu P, Tang SK, Xu LH, Kroppenstedt RM, Stackebrandt E, Jiang CL. Prauserella halophila sp. nov. and Prauserella alba sp. nov., moderately halophilic actinomycetes from saline soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1545-1549.

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