As the genus Halorubrum was validated before the genus Halorubrobacterium, we propose that the species Halorubrobacterium distributum and Halorubrobacterium coriense should be reclassified as Halorubrum distributum comb. nov. and Halorubrum coriense comb. nov., respectively.At its open meeting on 4 July 1994 in Prague, Czech Republic, the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Halobacteriaceae discussed the taxonomic position of several species that were previously classified in the genus Halobacterium but were sufficiently different from Halobacterium salinarum, the type species of the genus, to warrant classification in a separate genus (7). These species included Halobacterium saccharovorum, Halobacterium trapanicum, Halobacterium sodomense, and Halobacterium lacusprofmdi.A new genus, the genus Halorubrum, comprising the new combinations Halorubrum saccharovorum (type species), Hulorubrum sodomense, Halorubrum trapanicum, and Halorubrum lacusprofundi, was proposed by McGenity and Grant (6), and the new names were validly published in January 1996 (1). Independently, Kamekura and Dyall-Smith proposed the genus Halorubrobucterium to include Halorubrobacterium saccharovorum comb. nov. (type species), Halorubrobacterium sodomense comb. nov., Halorubrobacterium lacusprofundi comb. nov., Halorubrobacterium distributum comb. nov., and Halorubrobacterium con'ense sp. nov. (3). The new genus name and new combinations were validated in April 1996 (2).According to Rule 51b of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (5), the name Halorubrobacterium is a later synonym of the name Halorubrum and as such is illegitimate. Accordingly, Halorubrobacterium coriense sp. nov. and Halorubrobacterium distributum (Kostrikina et al. 1990) (4)