Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.26389

Name

Haloferacaceae Gupta et al. 2015 emend. Gupta et al. 2016

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Haloferacales Gupta et al. 2015

Members

genus	Haloferax Torreblanca et al. 1986 emend. Oren et al. 2009
genus	Halegenticoccus Liu et al. 2020
genus	Halobellus Cui et al. 2011 emend. Zhang et al. 2013
genus	Halogeometricum Montalvo-Rodríguez et al. 1998 emend. Cui et al. 2010
genus	Halogranum Cui et al. 2010 emend. Cui et al. 2011
genus	Haloparvum Chen et al. 2016
genus	Halopelagius Cui et al. 2010 emend. Zhang et al. 2013
genus	Haloplanus Elevi Bardavid et al. 2007 emend. Qiu et al. 2013
genus	Haloprofundus Zhang et al. 2017 emend. Li et al. 2021
genus	Haloquadratum Burns et al. 2007
genus	Halosarcina Savage et al. 2008 emend. Cui et al. 2010

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Archaea Woese et al. 1990
phylum Euryarchaeota (sic) Garrity and Holt 2001
class Halobacteria (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Grant et al. 2002 emend. Gupta et al. 2015
order Haloferacales Gupta et al. 2015
family Haloferacaceae Gupta et al. 2015 emend. Gupta et al. 2016

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the family Haloferacaceae Gupta et al. 2015 emend. Gupta et al. 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.26389.

Source File

10.1601/tx.26389.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 30, 2019.

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