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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 59 (2009), 637-642; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.008904-0
© 2009 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Taxonomic Note

Emended descriptions of genera of the family Halobacteriaceae

Aharon Oren1, David R. Arahal2 and Antonio Ventosa3

1 Institute of Life Sciences, and the Moshe Shilo Minerva Center for Marine Biogeochemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
2 Departamento de Microbiología y Ecología and Colección Española de Cultivos Tipo (CECT), Universidad de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
3 Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain

Correspondence
Aharon Oren
orena{at}cc.huji.ac.il

The family Halobacteriaceae currently contains 96 species whose names have been validly published, classified in 27 genera (as of September 2008). In recent years, many novel species have been added to the established genera but, in many cases, one or more properties of the novel species do not agree with the published descriptions of the genera. Authors have often failed to provide emended genus descriptions when necessary. Following discussions of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae, we here propose emended descriptions of the genera Halobacterium, Haloarcula, Halococcus, Haloferax, Halorubrum, Haloterrigena, Natrialba, Halobiforma and Natronorubrum.

Abbreviations: Me-PGP, methyl ester of phosphatidylglycerophosphate; PG, phosphatidylglycerol; PGS, phosphatidylglycerosulfate; S-DGD, sulfated diglycosyl diether derivative of PG; S2-DGD, bis-sulfated diglycosyl diether derivative of PG; S2-DGD-1, 1-O-[{alpha}-D-mannose-(2',6'-SO3H)-{alpha}-D-(1'->2')-glucose]-2,3-di-O-phytanyl- or phytanyl sesterterpenyl-sn-glycerol

A comparison of the properties of the nine genera for which emended descriptions are presented is available as supplementary material with the online version of this paper.






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