“…At the time of preparing this paper, the genus contained 73 species with validly published names (http://www.bacterio.net/nocardioides.html; Euzéby, 1997). Some of the 73 species were isolated from saline–alkaline environments; for instance, four type strains were isolated from alkaline soils (Yoon et al , 2005a, b, c, 2006), nine type strains were isolated from marine sediments (Yi & Chun, 2004a, b; Lee et al , 2007; Lee, 2007; Park et al , 2008; Dastager et al , 2009; Kim et al , 2009; Fan et al ; 2014, Zhang et al , 2014), one species was isolated from a salt lake (Lawson et al , 2000) and three species were isolated from seawater (Choi et al , 2007; Cho et al , 2013a, b).…”