Name: Halovivax ruber Castillo et al. 2007

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ru’ber. L. masc. adj. ruber, red

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.6204; DSM 18193; JCM 13892; XH-70

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB663453 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Castillo AM, Gutierrez MC, Kamekura M, Xue Y, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa A. Halovivax ruber sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from Lake Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1024-1027.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1675-1676.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.21968 (N = 19).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Halovivax Castillo et al. 2006

Assigned by: Castillo AM, Gutierrez MC, Kamekura M, Xue Y, Ma Y, Cowan DA, Jones BE, Grant WD, Ventosa A. Halovivax ruber sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from Lake Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1024-1027.

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Record number: 786245