Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4609

Name

Sporohalobacter Oren et al. 1988

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	Sporohalobacter lortetii (Oren 1984) Oren et al. 1988
species	Sporohalobacter marismortui Oren et al. 1988
species	Sporohalobacter salinus Abdallah et al. 2015

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 Sporohalobacter Oren et al. 1988

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 Sporohalobacter Oren et al. 1988. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4609.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4609.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 25, 2014.

References

Oren A, Pohla H, Stackebrandt E. Transfer of Clostridium lortetii to a new genus Sporohalobacter gen. nov. as Sporohalobacter lortetii comb. nov. and description of Sporohalobacter marismortui sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 1987; 9:239-246. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(87)80028-0.
Abdallah MB, Karray F, Mhiri N, Cayol J-L, Tholozan J-H, Alazard D, Sayadi S. Characterization of Sporohalobacter salinus sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, halophilic, fermentative bacterium isolated from a hypersaline lake in Tunisia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:543-548. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.066845-0 [PubMed].