Haloquadratum

J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Genus Haloquadratum

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Number of species cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies cited in this file: 0

Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").

Haloquadratum Burns et al. 2007, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Haloquadratum walsbyi Burns et al. 2007.
Recommended three-letter abbreviation: Hqr. (see the file ¤ "Three-letter code for abbreviations of generic names").
Etymology: Gr. masc. n. hals halos, salt; L. neut. n. quadratum, square; N.L. neut. n. Haloquadratum, salt square.
Reference: BURNS (D.G.), JANSSEN (P.H.), ITOH (T.), KAMEKURA (M.), LI (Z.), JENSEN (G.), RODRÍGUEZ-VALERA (F.), BOLHUIS (H.) and DYALL-SMITH (M.L.): Haloquadratum walsbyi gen. nov., sp. nov., the square haloarchaeon of Walsby, isolated from saltern crystallizers in Australia and Spain. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 387-392.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Note: In the etymology provided in the paper by Burns et al. 2007, the genitive halos is erroneously cited as haloes.

Haloquadratum walsbyi Burns et al. 2007, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain C23 = DSM 16854 = JCM 12705.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AY676200.
Etymology: N.L. gen. masc. n. walsbyi, of Walsby, named after A. E. Walsby, who first published observations on this organism.
Reference: BURNS (D.G.), JANSSEN (P.H.), ITOH (T.), KAMEKURA (M.), LI (Z.), JENSEN (G.), RODRÍGUEZ-VALERA (F.), BOLHUIS (H.) and DYALL-SMITH (M.L.): Haloquadratum walsbyi gen. nov., sp. nov., the square haloarchaeon of Walsby, isolated from saltern crystallizers in Australia and Spain. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2007, 57, 387-392.
Original article in IJSEM Online