Reclassification of Bacteriovorax marinus as Halobacteriovorax marinus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Bacteriovorax litoralis as Halobacteriovorax litoralis comb. nov.; description of Halobacteriovoraceae fam. nov. in the class Deltaproteobacteria-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Reclassification of Bacteriovorax marinus as Halobacteriovorax marinus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Bacteriovorax litoralis as Halobacteriovorax litoralis comb. nov.; description of Halobacteriovoraceae fam. nov. in the class Deltaproteobacteria

Published:2015-02-01 Issue:Pt_2 Volume:65 Page:593-597
ISSN:1466-5026
Container-title:International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
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Author:

Koval Susan F.¹,Williams Henry N.²,Stine O. Colin³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada

2. School of the Environment, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA

3. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

Abstract

The taxonomic status of saltwater

Bdellovibrio

-like prokaryotic predators has been revised to assign species to Halobacteriovorax gen. nov. A reclassification of

Bacteriovorax marinus

as Halobacteriovorax marinus comb. nov. (type strain ATCC BAA-682T = DSM 15412T) and

Bacteriovorax litoralis

as Halobacteriovorax litoralis comb. nov. (type strain ATCC BAA-684T = DSM 15409T) is proposed. This revision is necessary because a previous proposal to retain saltwater isolates as species of

Bacteriovorax

and reclassify

Bacteriovorax stolpii

Bacteriolyticum stolpii

was not approved. The type species of a genus cannot be reassigned to another genus.

Bacteriovorax stolpii

is thus retained as the type species of

Bacteriovorax

and Halobacteriovorax marinus is the type species of Halobacteriovorax and of Halobacteriovoraceae fam. nov.

Publisher

Microbiology Society

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