Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4603

Name

Orenia Rainey et al. 1995

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	Halobacteroidaceae Rainey et al. 1995

Members

species	Orenia marismortui (Oren et al. 1988) Rainey et al. 1995
species	Orenia chitinitropha Sorokin and Kolganova 2014
species	Orenia salinaria Mouné et al. 2000
species	Orenia sivashensis Zhilina et al. 2000

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Haloanaerobiales (sic) Rainey et al. 1995
family Halobacteroidaceae Rainey et al. 1995
genus Orenia Rainey et al. 1995

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 Orenia Rainey et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4603.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4603.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 2, 2014.

References

Zhilina TN, Turova TP, Kuznetsov BB, Kostrikina NA, Lysenko AM. Orenia sivashensis sp. nov., a new moderately halophilic anaerobic bacterium from Lake Sivash lagoons. Mikrobiologiya (Russian) 1999; 68:519-527.
Mouné S, Eatock C, Matheron R, Willison JC, Hirschler A, Herbert R, Caumette P. Orenia salinaria sp. nov., a fermentative bacterium isolated from anaerobic sediments of Mediterranean salterns. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:721-729. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-2-721 [PubMed].
Sorokin DY, Kolganova TV. Bacterial chitin utilization at halophilic conditions. Extremophiles 2014; 18:243-248. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-013-0611-z [PubMed].
Rainey FA, Zhilina TN, Boulygina ES, Stackebrandt E, Tourova TP, Zavarzin GA. The taxonomic status of the fermentative halophilic anaerobic bacteria: description of Haloanaerobiales ord. nov., Halobacteroidaceae fam. nov., Orenia gen. nov. and further taxonomic rearrangements at the genus and species level. Anaerobe 1995; 1:185-199. https://doi.org/10.1006/anae.1995.1018 [PubMed].