“…Very recently, however, ARAHAL et al (2002) have proposed that the genus Carnimonas should be included in this family. VREELAND et al (1980) originally described the genus Halomonas with only one species, H. elongata, but currently Halomonas includes 22 species, some of them previously assigned to other genera, such as Arthrobacter (COBET et al, 1970), Deleya (AKAGAWA and YAMASATO, 1989;BAUMANN et al, 1972;BAUMANN et al, 1983;QUESADA et al, 1984;VALDERRAMA et al, 1991) Flavobacterium (VOLCANI, 1940, Halovibrio (FENDRICH, 1988), Paracoccus (KOCUR 1984), Pseudomonas (ROSENBERG, 1983;HEBERT and VREELAND, 1987) and Volcaniella (QUESADA et al, 1990). Other species, however, have only been described more recently as members of the genus Halomonas (FRANZ- MANN et al, 1987;JAMES et al, 1990;BERENDES et al, 1996;ROMANO et al, 1996;MORMILE et al, 1999;DUCK-WORTH et al, 2000;BOUCHOTROCH et al, 2001;YOON et al, 2001;YOON et al, 2002 (ARAHAL et al, 2001a(ARAHAL et al, , 2001b.…”