Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.314

Name

Halomicrobium Oren et al. 2002

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	Halomicrobium mukohataei (Ihara et al. 1997) Oren et al. 2002
species	Halomicrobium katesii Kharroub et al. 2008
species	Halomicrobium salinisoli Xin et al. 2022
species	Halomicrobium urmianum (Mehrshad et al. 2016) Xin et al. 2022
species	Halomicrobium zhouii Yang and Cui 2012

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 Halomicrobium Oren et al. 2002

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 Halomicrobium Oren et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.314.

Source File

10.1601/tx.314.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 18, 2022.

References

Kharroub K, Lizama C, Aguilera M, Boulaharouf A, Campos V, Ramos-Cormenzana A, Monteoliva-Sánchez M. Halomicrobium katesii sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2354-2358. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65662-0 [PubMed].
Gupta RS, Naushad S, Fabros R, Adeolu M. A phylogenomic reappraisal of family-level divisions within the class Halobacteria: proposal to divide the order Halobacteriales into the families Halobacteriaceae, Haloarculaceae fam. nov., and Halococcaceae fam. nov., and the order Haloferacales into the families, Haloferacaceae and Halorubraceae fam. nov. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:565-587. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-016-0660-2 [PubMed].
Yang X, Cui H-L. Halomicrobium zhouii sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon from a marine solar saltern. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1235-1240. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.031989-0 [PubMed].
Xin Y-J, Bao C-X, Li S-Y, Hu X-Y, Zhu L, Wei W, Hou J, Cui H-L. Genome-based taxonomy of genera Halomicrobium and Halosiccatus, and description of Halomicrobium salinisoli sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2022; 45:126308-126308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2022.126308 [PubMed].
Oren A, Elevi R, Watanabe S, Ihara K, Corcelli A. Halomicrobium mukohataei gen. nov., comb. nov., and emended description of Halomicrobium mukohataei. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1831-1835. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02156-0 [PubMed].