Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8603

Name

Haloferax sulfurifontis Elshahed et al. 2004

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

M6^T (=CCM 7217 =DSM 16227 =ATCC BAA-897 =CIP 108334 =JCM 12327)

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 sulfurifontis Elshahed et al. 2004

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 sulfurifontis Elshahed et al. 2004. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8603.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8603.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 24, 2019.

References

Elshahed MS, Savage KN, Oren A, Gutierrez MC, Ventosa A, Krumholz LR. Haloferax sulfurifontis sp. nov., a halophilic archaeon isolated from a sulfide- and sulfur-rich spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:2275-2279. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63211-0 [PubMed].