Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.11206

Name

Halopiger Gutiérrez et al. 2007

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	Natrialbaceae Gupta et al. 2015

Members

species	Halopiger xanaduensis Gutiérrez et al. 2007
species	Halopiger aswanensis Hezayen et al. 2010
species	Halopiger djelfamassiliensis (sic) Hassani et al. 2016
species	Halopiger goleimassiliensis corrig. Ikram et al. 2016
species	Halopiger salifodinae Zhang et al. 2013
species	Halopiger thermotolerans Minegishi et al. 2016

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 Natrialbales Gupta et al. 2015
family Natrialbaceae Gupta et al. 2015
genus Halopiger Gutiérrez et al. 2007

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 Halopiger Gutiérrez et al. 2007. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.11206.

Source File

10.1601/tx.11206.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 4, 2021.

References

Gutiérrez MC, Castillo AM, Kamekura M, Xue Y, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa A. Halopiger xanaduensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from saline Lake Shangmatala in Inner Mongolia, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1402-1407. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65001-0 [PubMed].
Ikram HI, Catherine R, Caroline M, Didier R, Hocine H, Christelle D. Non-contiguous finished genome sequence and description of Halopiger goleamassiliensis sp. nov. Stand Genomic Sci 2014; 9:956-959. https://doi.org/10.4056/sigs.4618288 [PubMed].
Gupta RS, Naushad S, Baker S. Phylogenomic analyses and molecular signatures for the class Halobacteria and its two major clades: a proposal for division of the class Halobacteria into an emended order Halobacteriales and two new orders, Haloferacales ord. nov. and Natrialbales ord. nov., containing the novel families Haloferacaceae fam. nov. and Natrialbaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1050-1069. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.070136-0 [PubMed].
Minegishi H, Shimogaki R, Enomoto S, Echigo A, Kondo Y, Nagaoka S, Shimane Y, Kamekura M, Itok T, Ohkuma M, Nunoura T, Takai K, Usami R. Halopiger thermotolerans sp. nov., a thermo-tolerant haloarchaeon isolated from commercial salt. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4975-4980. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001455 [PubMed].
Hezayen FF, Gutiérrez MC, Steinbüchel A, Tindall BJ, Rehm BHA. Halopiger aswanensis sp. nov., a polymer-producing and extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from hypersaline soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:633-637. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.013078-0 [PubMed].
Zhang W-Y, Meng Y, Zhu X-F, Wu M. Halopiger salifodinae sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from a salt mine. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3563-3567. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.050971-0 [PubMed].
Hassani II, Robert C, Caroline M, Raoult D, Hacène H, Desnues C. Non-contiguous finished genome sequence and description of Halopiger djelfamassiliensis sp. nov. Stand Genomic Sci 2013; 9:160-174. https://doi.org/10.4056/sigs.4578289 [PubMed].