Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.311

Name

Haloferax mediterranei (Rodriguez-Valera et al. 1983) Torreblanca et al. 1987

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

R-4^T (=NCMB 2177 =IFO 14739 =CCM 3361 =ATCC 33500)

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 mediterranei (Rodriguez-Valera et al. 1983) Torreblanca et al. 1987

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 mediterranei (Rodriguez-Valera et al. 1983) Torreblanca et al. 1987. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.311.

Source File

10.1601/tx.311.xml

References

Torreblanca M, Rodriguez-Valera F, Juez G, Ventosa A, Kamekura M, Kates M. Classification of non-alkaliphilic halobacteria based on numerical taxonomy and polar lipid composition, and description of Haloarcula gen. nov and Haloferax gen. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 1986; 8:89-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(86)80155-2.