Halospirulina

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

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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").

Halospirulina Nübel et al. 2000, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Halospirulina tapeticola Nübel et al. 2000.
Etymology: Gr. n. hals halos, salt; N.L. dim. fem. n. spirulina, a small coil; N.L. fem. n. Halospirulina, salt-tolerant small coil.
Reference: NÜBEL (U.), GARCIA-PICHEL (F.) and 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.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Halospirulina tapeticola Nübel et al. 2000, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain CCC Baja-95 Cl. 2 (The type strain is available from the Culture Collection of Microorganisms from Extreme Environments, Eugene, OR, USA, and has been deposited in the Pasteur Culture Collection, Paris, France [accession numbers not given]).
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: Y18791.
Etymology: L. n. tapete -is, a carpet, mat; L. suff. -cola (from L. n. incola), dweller; N.L. n. tapeticola, microbial-mat dweller.
Reference: NÜBEL (U.), GARCIA-PICHEL (F.) and 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.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Note: According to Rule 65(2), the specific epithet is in the masculine gender (not in the feminine gender as cited in the paper by Nübel et al. 2000).