Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.296

Name

Halobiforma Hezayen et al. 2002 emend. Oren et al. 2009

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	Halobacteriaceae Gibbons 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2016

Members

species	Halobiforma haloterrestris Hezayen et al. 2002
species	Halobiforma lacisalsi Xu et al. 2005
species	Halobiforma nitratireducens (Xin et al. 2001) Hezayen et al. 2002

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 Halobacteriales Grant and Larsen 1989 emend. Gupta et al. 2015
family Halobacteriaceae Gibbons 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2016
genus Halobiforma Hezayen et al. 2002 emend. Oren et al. 2009

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 Halobiforma Hezayen et al. 2002 emend. Oren et al. 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.296.

Source File

10.1601/tx.296.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 12, 2009.

References

Hezayen FF, Tindall BJ, Steinbüchel A, Rehm BHA. Characterization of a novel halophilic archaeon, Halobiforma haloterrestris gen. nov., sp. nov., and transfer of Natronobacterium nitratireducens to Halobiforma nitratireducens comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:2271-2280. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02324-0 [PubMed].
Xu XW, Wu M, Zhou PJ, Liu SJ. Halobiforma lacisalsi sp. nov., isolated from a salt lake in China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1949-1952. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63742-0 [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].