Halomonas venusta

Halomonas venusta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Oceanospirillales
Family:	Halomonadaceae
Genus:	Halomonas
Species:	H. halodurans
Binomial name
Halomonas halodurans Dobson and Franzmann 1996[1]

Halomonas venusta is a Gram-negative halophilic Proteobacteria, first described as Alcaligenes venustus (Baumann et al. 1972) and later reclassified as Halomonas venusta, along with other species when 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) were unified into a single genus, Halomonas, while the genus Zymobacter was placed in the family Halomonadaceae.^[1] The name stems from the Latin noun venusta which means "lovely" or "beautiful".^[2] It was originally isolated in marine water from Hawaii.^[3]

References

1. Dobson, S.J.; Franzmann, P.D. (1996). "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". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 46 (2): 550–558. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-2-550.
2. J.P. Euzéby. "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Genus Halomonas". Retrieved 2010-12-04.
3. Arahal, David R.; Ludwig Wolfgang; Schleifer Karl H.; Ventosa Antonio. (2002). "Phylogeny of the family Halomonadaceae based on 23S and 16S rDNA sequence analyses" (PDF). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 52 (1): 241–249. doi:10.1099/00207713-52-1-241. PMID 11837309.