title: 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.
abstract: 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-682(T) = DSM 15412(T)) and Bacteriovorax litoralis as Halobacteriovorax litoralis comb. nov. (type strain ATCC BAA-684(T) = DSM 15409(T)) 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5C1, Canada.
authors.forename: Susan F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Koval
authors.affiliation: School of the Environment, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA.
authors.forename: Henry N
authors.initials: HN
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
authors.forename: O Colin
authors.initials: OC
authors.lastname: Stine
mesh_terms: D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D020564:Deltaproteobacteria / Q000145:classification*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S