Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.23211

Name

Halopenitus Amoozegar et al. 2012

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	Halorubraceae Gupta et al. 2016 emend. Gupta et al. 2016

Members

species	Halopenitus persicus Amoozegar et al. 2012
species	Halopenitus malekzadehii Amoozegar et al. 2013
species	Halopenitus salinus Han 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 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 Halorubraceae Gupta et al. 2016 emend. Gupta et al. 2016
genus Halopenitus Amoozegar et al. 2012

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 Halopenitus Amoozegar et al. 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.23211.

Source File

10.1601/tx.23211.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 16, 2014.

References

Han D, Cui H-L, Li Z-R. Halopenitus salinus sp. nov., isolated from the brine of salted brown alga Laminaria. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 106:743-749. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-014-0244-y [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].
Amoozegar MA, Makhdoumi-Kakhki A, Fazeli SAS, Azarbaijani R, Ventosa A. Halopenitus persicus gen. nov., sp. nov., an archaeon from an inland salt lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1932-1936. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.036921-0 [PubMed].
Amoozegar MA, Makhdoumi-Kakhki A, Mehrshad M, Shahzadeh Fazeli SA, Ventosa A. Halopenitus malekzadehii sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from a salt lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3232-3236. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.050500-0 [PubMed].