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
2015
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
as
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.
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