Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.286

Name

Haloarcula Torreblanca et al. 1986 emend. Oren et al. 2009

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Haloarculaceae Gupta et al. 2016

Members

species	Haloarcula vallismortis (Gonzalez et al. 1979) Torreblanca et al. 1986
species	Haloarcula amylolytica Yang et al. 2007
species	Haloarcula argentinensis Ihara et al. 1997
species	Haloarcula hispanica Juez et al. 1986
species	Haloarcula japonica Takashina et al. 1991
species	Haloarcula mannanilytica Enomoto et al. 2020
species	Haloarcula marismortui (ex Elazari-Volcani 1940) Oren et al. 1990
species	Haloarcula mukohataei Ihara et al. 1997
species	Haloarcula quadrata Oren et al. 1999
species	Haloarcula salaria Namwong et al. 2011
species	Haloarcula sebkhae Barreteau et al. 2019
species	Haloarcula tradensis Namwong et al. 2011
species	Haloarcula sp. None 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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 Halobacteriales Grant and Larsen 1989 emend. Gupta et al. 2015
family Haloarculaceae Gupta et al. 2016
genus Haloarcula Torreblanca et al. 1986 emend. Oren et al. 2009

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 genus Haloarcula Torreblanca et al. 1986 emend. Oren et al. 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.286.

Source File

10.1601/tx.286.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 23, 2020.

References

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Oren A, Ginzburg M, Ginzburg BZ, Hochstein LI, Volcani BE. Haloarcula marismortui (Volcani) sp. nov., nom. rev., an extremely halophilic bacterium from the Dead Sea. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:209-210. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-40-2-209 [PubMed].
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Oren A, Ventosa A, Gutiérrez MC, Kamekura M. Haloarcula quadrata sp. nov., a square, motile archaeon isolated from a brine pool in Sinai (Egypt). Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1149-1155. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-3-1149 [PubMed].
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Enomoto S, Shimane Y, Ihara K, Kamekura M, Itoh T, Ohkuma M, Takahashi-Ando N, Fukushima Y, Yoshida Y, Usami R, Takai K, Minegishi H. Haloarcula mannanilytica sp. nov., a galactomannan-degrading haloarchaeon isolated from commercial salt. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:6331-6337. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004535 [PubMed].
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