Name: Alcanivoraceae Golyshin et al. 2005

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Alcanivorax Yakimov et al. 1998

Effective publication: Golyshin PN, Harayama S, Timmis KN, Yakimov MM. Family II. Alcanivoraceae fam. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 295. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 106. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2235-2238.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling

Correct name: Alcanivoracaceae corrig. Golyshin et al. 2005

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Alcanivoracaceae corrig. Golyshin et al. 2005	corrected spelling of name, validly published under the ICNP
    Ketobacteraceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Pelagibaculaceae" Flores-Félix et al. 2025	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this family to the order Oceanospirillales Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order VIII. Oceanospirillales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 270. 🇺🇸
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Halomonadaceae Franzmann et al. 1989. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166. 🇺🇸
  • 🚋 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Alcanivoracaceae corrig. Golyshin et al. 2005. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class III. Gammaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1. 🇺🇸
  • 🚋 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Alcanivoracaceae corrig. Golyshin et al. 2005. Publication: Rai A, Suresh G, Ria B, L V, Pk S, Ipsita S, Sasikala C, Venkata Ramana C. Phylogenomic analysis of the genus Alcanivorax: proposal for division of this genus into the emended genus Alcanivorax and two novel genera Alloalcanivorax gen. nov. and Isoalcanivorax gen. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2023; 73:0. 🇮🇳
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Alcanovoraxaceae".

Parent taxon: Oceanospirillales Garrity et al. 2005

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Order VIII. Oceanospirillales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 270. 🇺🇸

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