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Rafael R. de la Haba1*
David R. Arahal2
Cristina Sánchez-Porro1
Maria Chuvochina3
Stijn Wittouck4
Philip Hugenholtz3
Antonio Ventosa1*- 1Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
- 2Department of Microbiology and Ecology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
- 3The University of Queensland, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- 4Research Group Environmental Ecology and Applied Microbiology, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
A corrigendum on
A long-awaited taxogenomic investigation of the family Halomonadaceae
by de la Haba, R. R., Arahal, D. R., Sánchez-Porro, C., Chuvochina, M., Wittouck, S., Hugenholtz, P., and Ventosa, A. (2023). Front. Microbiol. 14:1293707. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1293707
In the published article, there was an error in the formation of the new combination Vreelandella utahensis, which should have been named Vreelandella halophila comb. nov. instead, using the earliest legitimate epithet of the species in application of Rule 41a (Oren et al., 2023).
A correction has been made to the Taxonomic conclusions section, specifically to the Description of Vreelandella utahensis comb. nov. This section previously stated:
“Description of Vreelandella utahensis comb. nov.
Vreelandella utahensis (u.ta.hen'sis. N.L. fem. adj. utahensis, referring to Utah).
Basonym: Halomonas utahensis Sorokin and Tindall, 2006.
The description is as given in the proposal of the basonym (Sorokin and Tindall, 2006), with the following addition. The genome size of the type strain is 3.73 Mbp. The DNA G + C content is 55.8 mol%.
Isolated from surface water from the North Arm of Great Salt Lake (United States).
The type strain is isolate IIIT = ATCC 49240T = CECT 5286T = CIP 105504T = DSM 3051T = IAM 14440T = JCM 21223T = NBRC 102410T.
Type strain genome sequence accession number: GCA_007991175.1.
Type strain 16S rRNA gene sequence accession number: AJ306893.”
The corrected section appears below:
“Description of Vreelandella halophila comb. nov.
Vreelandella halophila (ha.lo'phi.la. Gr. masc. n. hals [gen. halos], salt; N.L. fem. adj. suff. -phila, friend, loving; from Gr. fem. adj. philê, loving; N.L. fem. adj. halophila, salt-loving).
Basonym: Pseudomonas halophila Fendrich 1989.
The description is as given in the proposal of the homotypic synonym Halomonas utahensis (Sorokin and Tindall, 2006), with the following addition. The genome size of the type strain is 3.73 Mbp. The DNA G + C content is 55.8 mol%.
Isolated from surface water from the North Arm of Great Salt Lake (United States).
The type strain is isolate IIIT = ATCC 49240T = CECT 5286T = CIP 105504T = DSM 3051T = IAM 14440T = JCM 21223T = NBRC 102410T.
Type strain genome sequence accession number: GCA_007991175.1.
Type strain 16S rRNA gene sequence accession number: AJ306893.”
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Meng-Syun Li (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) for having detected the illegitimacy of the proposed new combination Vreelandella utahensis, and A. Oren (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) for his advice on how to sort out this issue.
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References
Keywords: phylogenomics, signature genes, halophiles, taxonomic reclassification, genus delineation
Citation: de la Haba RR, Arahal DR, Sánchez-Porro C, Chuvochina M, Wittouck S, Hugenholtz P and Ventosa A (2025) Corrigendum: A long-awaited taxogenomic investigation of the family Halomonadaceae. Front. Microbiol. 16:1549745. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1549745
Received: 21 December 2024; Accepted: 09 January 2025;
Published: 28 January 2025.
Edited and reviewed by: Ram Karan, University of Delhi, India
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