Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5037

Name

Halobacillus Spring et al. 1996 emend. Yoon et al. 2007

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	Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Halobacillus halophilus (Claus et al. 1984) Spring et al. 1996
species	Halobacillus aidingensis Liu et al. 2005
species	Halobacillus alkaliphilus Romano et al. 2008
species	Halobacillus andaensis Wang et al. 2015
species	Halobacillus campisalis Yoon et al. 2007
species	Halobacillus dabanensis Liu et al. 2005
species	Halobacillus faecis An et al. 2007
species	Halobacillus fulvus Booncharoen et al. 2021
species	Halobacillus hunanensis Peng et al. 2009
species	Halobacillus karajensis Amoozegar et al. 2003
species	Halobacillus kuroshimensis Hua et al. 2007
species	Halobacillus litoralis Spring et al. 1996
species	Halobacillus locisalis Yoon et al. 2004
species	Halobacillus mangrovi Soto-Ramírez et al. 2008
species	Halobacillus naozhouensis Chen et al. 2012
species	Halobacillus profundi Hua et al. 2007
species	Halobacillus salicampi Kim et al. 2016
species	Halobacillus salinus Yoon et al. 2003
species	Halobacillus salsuginis Chen et al. 2009
species	Halobacillus sediminis Kim et al. 2015
species	Halobacillus seohaensis Yoon et al. 2008
species	Halobacillus trueperi Spring et al. 1996
species	Halobacillus yeomjeoni Yoon et al. 2005

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
order Bacillales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Halobacillus Spring et al. 1996 emend. Yoon et al. 2007

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 Halobacillus Spring et al. 1996 emend. Yoon et al. 2007. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5037.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5037.xml


This information was last reviewed on December 2, 2021.

References

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