Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.350

Name

Natronococcus Tindall et al. 1984 emend. Tindall 2001

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	Natrialbaceae Gupta et al. 2015

Members

species	Natronococcus occultus Tindall et al. 1984
species	Natronococcus amylolyticus Kanai et al. 1995
species	Natronococcus jeotgali Roh et al. 2007
species	Natronococcus roseus Corral et al. 2013

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 Natrialbales Gupta et al. 2015
family Natrialbaceae Gupta et al. 2015
genus Natronococcus Tindall et al. 1984 emend. Tindall 2001

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 Natronococcus Tindall et al. 1984 emend. Tindall 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.350.

Source File

10.1601/tx.350.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 11, 2016.

References

Corral P, Gutiérrez MC, Castillo AM, Domínguez M, Lopalco P, Corcelli A, Ventosa A. Natronococcus roseus sp. nov., a haloalkaliphilic archaeon from a hypersaline lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:104-108. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.036558-0 [PubMed].
Kanai H, Kobayashi T, Aono R, Kudo T. Natronococcus amylolyticus sp. nov., a haloalkaliphilic archaeon. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:762-766. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-4-762 [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].
Tindall BJ, Ross HNM, Grant WD. Natronobacterium gen. nov. and Natronococcus gen. nov., two new genera of haloalkaliphilic archaebacteria. Syst Appl Microbiol 1984; 5:41-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(84)80050-8.
Roh SW, Nam YD, Chang HW, Sung Y, Kim KH, Lee HJ, Oh HM, Bae JW. Natronococcus jeotgali sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon isolated from shrimp jeotgal, a traditional fermented seafood from Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2129-2131. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65120-0 [PubMed].