Haloarcula pellucida (JCM 17820, CECT 7537, BNERC31)

Name: Haloarcula pellucida (JCM 17820, CECT 7537, BNERC31)
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BacDive ID 133995

Type strain

Strain Designation BNERC31

Culture col. no. JCM 17820 CECT 7537 BNERC31

NCBI tax ID(s) 1427151

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History A. Echigo BNERC31.

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Haloarcula pellucida BNERC31 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile prokaryote that was isolated from food product.

Gram-negative motile aerobe genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 390919

JCM 17820,CECT 7537

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:32:05

Domain Archaea

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Haloarculaceae

Genus Haloarcula

Species Haloarcula pellucida

Full scientific name Haloarcula pellucida (Echigo et al. 2013) Ma et al. 2024

Synonyms (1)

Halomicroarcula pellucida

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Motility
31021	negative

Pigmentation

31021

Productionno

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
31021	positive	growth	25-55
31021	positive	optimum	40	thermophilic
67770	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
31021	positive	optimum	7
31021	positive	growth	6.0-8.5	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

31021

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		92.4

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31021	NaCl	positive	growth	20-30 %
31021	NaCl	positive	optimum	25 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31021	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
31021	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
31021	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
31021	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
31021	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
31021	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
31021	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity
31021	gelatinase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Food production	#Food

Isolation

@ref	Sample type
31021	food product
67770	Solar salt 'Sel marin de Guérande' from France

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB766179 (>99% sequence identity) for Halomicroarcula from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	16
Soil Samples	22
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	38

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1959951v1 assembly for Haloarcula pellucida CECT 7537	contig	GCA_019599515	1427151.4	8063898540	1427151	65.91
66792	ASM1464723v1 assembly for Haloarcula pellucida JCM 17820	contig	GCA_014647235	1427151.3	2989002549	1427151	58.67

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
31021	Halomicroarcula pellucida gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence, strain: BNERC31, rrnA	AB766179	1471		1427151

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
31021	64.1
67770	64.1	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Halomicroarcula pellucida CECT 7537
NCBI: GCA_019599515

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	92.40	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	53.40	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	63.90	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	85.90	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Halomicroarcula pellucida strain JCM 17820
PATRIC: 1427151.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	77.31	yes
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	75.85	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	80.08	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	79.66	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	82.14	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	86.00	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Validation List no. 217. Valid publication of new names and new combinations effectively published outside the IJSEM.	Oren A, Goker M.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006275	2024
	Genomic Insights Into New Species of the Genus Halomicroarcula Reveals Potential for New Osmoadaptative Strategies in Halophilic Archaea.	Duran-Viseras A, Sanchez-Porro C, Ventosa A	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2021.751746	2021
Phylogeny	Halomicroarcula pellucida gen. nov., sp. nov., a non-pigmented, transparent-colony-forming, halophilic archaeon isolated from solar salt.	Echigo A, Minegishi H, Shimane Y, Kamekura M, Itoh T, Usami R	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.049965-0	2013
Phylogeny	Halomicroarcula limicola sp. nov., isolated from a marine solar saltern, and emended description of the genus Halomicroarcula.	Zhang WJ, Cui HL	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.062455-0	2014

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#27351	IJSEM 3556 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.049965-0 , PubMed 23563231 )
#31021	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #27351
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Haloarcula pellucida (JCM 17820, CECT 7537, BNERC31)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_019599515

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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