Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.28475

Name

Halococcaceae Gupta et al. 2016

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Halobacteriales Grant and Larsen 1989 emend. Gupta et al. 2015

Members

genus	Halococcus Schoop 1935 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Oren et al. 2009

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Halobacteriales Grant and Larsen 1989 emend. Gupta et al. 2015
family Halococcaceae Gupta et al. 2016

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 family Halococcaceae Gupta et al. 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.28475.

Source File

10.1601/tx.28475.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 4, 2016.

References

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].