Name: Volcaniella Quesada et al. 1990

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Vol.ca.ni.el’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Volcaniella, named for B. Elazari-Volcani, the microbiologist who first described halophilic microorganisms from the Dead Sea

Gender: feminine (stem: Volcaniell-)

Type species: Volcaniella eurihalina Quesada et al. 1990

Valid publication: Quesada E, Valderrama MJ, Bejar V, Ventosa A, Gutierrez MC, Ruiz-Berraquero F, Ramos-Cormenzana A. Volcaniella eurihalina gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic nonmotile gram-negative rod. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1990; 40:261-267.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Halomonas Vreeland et al. 1980

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Halomonadaceae Franzmann et al. 1989

Assigned by: Dobson SJ, Franzmann PD. Unification of the genera Deleya (Baumann et al. 1983), Halomonas (Vreeland et al. 1980), and Halovibrio (Fendrich 1988) and the species Paracoccus halodenitrificans (Robinson and Gibbons 1952) into a single genus, Halomonas, and placement of the genus Zymobacter in the family Halomonadaceae. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1996; 46:550-558.

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Record number: 516904
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