Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.328

Name

Halosimplex Vreeland et al. 2003 emend. Han and Cui 2014

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	Halosimplex carlsbadense Vreeland et al. 2003
species	Halosimplex halophilum Yang et al. 2021
species	Halosimplex litoreum Yuan et al. 2015
species	Halosimplex pelagicum Han and Cui 2014
species	Halosimplex rubrum Han and Cui 2014
species	Halosimplex salinum Yang et al. 2021

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 Halosimplex Vreeland et al. 2003 emend. Han and Cui 2014

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 Halosimplex Vreeland et al. 2003 emend. Han and Cui 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.328.

Source File

10.1601/tx.328.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 5, 2021.

References

Vreeland RH, Straight S, Krammes J, Dougherty K, Rosenzweig WD, Kamekura M. Halosimplex carlsbadense gen. nov., sp. nov., a unique halophilic archaeon, with three 16S rRNA genes, that grows only in defined medium with glycerol and acetate or pyruvate. Extremophiles 2002; 6:445-452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-002-0278-3 [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].
Yuan P-P, Xu J-Q, Xu W-M, Wang Z, Yin S, Han D, Zhang W-J, Cui H-L. Halosimplex litoreum sp. nov., isolated from a marine solar saltern. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 108:483-489. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-015-0501-8 [PubMed].
Yang X-Y, Yin X-M, Hou J, Zhu L, Cui H-L. Halosimplex halophilum sp. nov. and Halosimplex salinum sp. nov., isolated from saline soil and a salt mine. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004775 [PubMed].
Han D, Cui H-L. Halosimplex pelagicum sp. nov. and Halosimplex rubrum sp. nov., isolated from salted brown alga Laminaria, and emended description of the genus Halosimplex. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:169-173. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.056887-0 [PubMed].