S porosalibacterium

Abstract Spo.ro.sa.li.bac.te'ri.um. Gr. n. spora a seed and, in bacteriology, a spore; L. n. sal, salis salt; L. neut. n. bacterium a rod; N.L. neut. n. Sporosalibacterium a moderately halophilic sporulated rod. The genus Sporosalibacterium , at the time of writing, comprised two validly published species, Sporosalibacterium faouarense , which was isolated from a hydrocarbon‐polluted soil surrounding a deep petroleum environment located in the El Faouar area in south Tunisia, and Sporosalibacterium tautonense , obtained from the sample of a microbial mat, developed under the flow of subsurface water in TauTona Gold Mine, South Africa. The species of the genus are thermotolerant, moderately halophilic, and strictly anaerobic and present a fermentative growth on carbohydrates. Phylogenetic analyses using 16S rRNA gene sequences placed the two species as representatives of Clostridiaceae family. DNA G + C content (mol%) : 32.9 ± 2.5 (HPLC). Type species : Sporosalibacterium faouarense Rezgui, Ben Ali Gam, Ben Hamed, Fardeau, Cayol, Maaroufi and Labat 2011, 104 VP . Taxonomic and Nomenclature Notes According to the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN), the taxonomic status of the genus Sporosalibacterium is: correct name (last update, February 2025) * . LPSN classification: Bacteria / Bacillati / Bacillota / Clostridia / Eubacteriales / Clostridiaceae / Sporosalibacterium The genus Sporosalibacterium can also be recovered in the Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB) as g__Sporosalibacterium (version v220) ** . GTDB classification: d__Bacteria / p__Bacillota_A / c__Clostridia / o__Tissierellales / f__VENL01 / g__Sporosalibacterium * Meier‐Kolthoff et al. ( 2022 ). Nucleic Acids Res , 50 , D801 – D807 ; DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab902 ** Parks et al. ( 2022 ). Nucleic Acids Res , 50 , D785 – D794 ; DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab776