Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.13342

Name

Haloferax elongans Allen et al. 2008

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Haloferax Torreblanca et al. 1986 emend. Oren et al. 2009

Type Strain

representative organism

UNSW 104100^T (=JCM 14791 =SA5 =ATCC BAA-1513)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 Haloferacales Gupta et al. 2015
family Haloferacaceae Gupta et al. 2015 emend. Gupta et al. 2016
genus Haloferax Torreblanca et al. 1986 emend. Oren et al. 2009
species Haloferax elongans Allen et al. 2008

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 species Haloferax elongans Allen et al. 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.13342.

Source File

10.1601/tx.13342.xml

References

Allen MA, Goh F, Leuko S, Echigo A, Mizuki T, Usami R, Kamekura M, Neilan BA, Burns BP. Haloferax elongans sp. nov. and Haloferax mucosum sp. nov., isolated from microbial mats from Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Australia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:798-802. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65360-0 [PubMed].