Methylohalobius

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

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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").

Methylohalobius Heyer et al. 2005, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Methylohalobius crimeensis Heyer et al. 2005.
Etymology: N.L. n. methylum (from French méthyle, back-formation from French méthylène, coined from Gr. n. methu, wine and Gr. n. hulê, wood), the methyl group; N.L. pref. methylo-, pertaining to the methyl radical; Gr. n. hals halos, salt; Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. masc. n. Methylohalobius, salt-requiring, methyl-using bacterium.
Reference: HEYER (J.), BERGER (U.), HARDT (M.) and DUNFIELD (P.F.): Methylohalobius crimeensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, methanotrophic bacterium isolated from hypersaline lakes of Crimea. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2005, 55, 1817-1826.
Original article in IJSEM Online

Note: The etymology cited in the paper by Heyer et al. 2005 is the following: N.L. neut. n. methyl, methylis the methyl group; Gr. n. hals halos, salt; Gr. masc. n. bios life; N.L. masc. n. Methylohalobius salt-requiring, methyl-using bacterium. However, with such an etymology the correct name should be Methylihalobius.

Methylohalobius crimeensis Heyer et al. 2005, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): strain 10Ki = ATCC BAA-967 = DSM 16011.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: AJ581837.
Etymology: N.L. masc. adj. crimeensis, pertaining to Crimea.
Reference: HEYER (J.), BERGER (U.), HARDT (M.) and DUNFIELD (P.F.): Methylohalobius crimeensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, methanotrophic bacterium isolated from hypersaline lakes of Crimea. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2005, 55, 1817-1826.
Original article in IJSEM Online