Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.305

Name

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

Members

species	Haloferax volcanii (Mullakhanbhai and Larsen 1975) Torreblanca et al. 1986
species	Haloferax alexandrinus Asker and Ohta 2002
species	Haloferax chudinovii Saralov et al. 2014
species	Haloferax denitrificans (Tomlinson et al. 1986) Tindall et al. 1989
species	Haloferax elongans Allen et al. 2008
species	Haloferax gibbonsii Juez et al. 1986
species	Haloferax larsenii Xu et al. 2007
species	Haloferax lucentensis (sic) Gutierrez et al. 2004
species	Haloferax mediterranei (Rodriguez-Valera et al. 1983) Torreblanca et al. 1987
species	Haloferax mucosum Allen et al. 2008
species	Haloferax namakaokahaiae McDuff et al. 2017
species	Haloferax prahovense Enache et al. 2007
species	Haloferax sulfurifontis Elshahed et al. 2004
species	Haloferax 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 Haloferacales Gupta et al. 2015
family Haloferacaceae Gupta et al. 2015 emend. Gupta et al. 2016
genus Haloferax 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 Haloferax Torreblanca et al. 1986 emend. Oren et al. 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.305.

Source File

10.1601/tx.305.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 20, 2017.

References

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No reference is available 2015
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