Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.692

Name

Halospirulina Nübel et al. 2000 emend. McNeill et al. 2006

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	Spirulinaceae None 2015

Members

species	Halospirulina tapeticola Nübel et al. 2000 emend. McNeill et al. 2006

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 Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 2006
class Cyanobacteria (Stanier 1973) Woese et al. 2006 emend. McNeill et al. 2006 non Cyanobacteria Woese et al. 1985
subclass Synechococcophycidae None 2015
order Spirulinales Komárek et al. 2014
family Spirulinaceae None 2015
genus Halospirulina Nübel et al. 2000 emend. McNeill et al. 2006

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 Halospirulina Nübel et al. 2000 emend. McNeill et al. 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.692.

Source File

10.1601/tx.692.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 12, 2009.

References

Garrity GM, Lilburn TG, Cole JR, Harrison SH, Euzéby J, Tindall BJ. Taxonomic Outline of the Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7 March 6, 2007. Part 2 – The Bacteria, Phyla “Aquficae”, “Thermotogae”, “Thermodesulfobacteria”, Deinococcus-Thermus, “Chrysiogenetes”, “Chloroflexi”, “Thermomicrobia”, “Nitrospira”, “Deferrebacteres”, “Cyanobacteria”, and “Chlorobi”. Taxonomic Outline 2007; .
Nübel U, Garcia-Pichel F, Muyzer G. The halotolerance and phylogeny of cyanobacteria with tightly coiled trichomes (Spirulina Turpin) and the description of Halospirulina tapeticola gen. nov., sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1265-1277. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-3-1265 [PubMed].
Komárek J, Kaštovský J, Mareš J, Johansen JR. Taxonomic classification of cyanoprokaryotes (cyanobacterial genera) 2014, using a polyphasic approach. Preslia 2014; 86:295-335.