Name: Alteromonadaceae Ivanova and Mikhailov 2001

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Al.te.ro.mo.na.da’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Alteromonas, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Alteromonadaceae, the Alteromonas family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Alteromonas Baumann et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Ivanova EP, Mikhailov VV. [A new family of Alteromonadaceae fam. nov., including the marine proteobacteria species Alteromonas, Pseudoalteromonas, Idiomarina i Colwellia]. Mikrobiologiia 2001; 70:15-23.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 81. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1229.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Marinobacteraceae Liao et al. 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Ivanova et al. 2004 Ivanova EP, Flavier S, Christen R. Phylogenetic relationships among marine Alteromonas-like proteobacteria: emended description of the family Alteromonadaceae and proposal of Pseudoalteromonadaceae fam. nov., Colwelliaceae fam. nov., Shewanellaceae fam. nov., Moritellaceae fam. nov., Ferrimonadaceae fam. nov., Idiomarinaceae fam. nov. and Psychromonadaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1773-1788. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:3-5.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 1 genus in the family.
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 5 genera from the family.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Ivanova and Mikhailov (2001) assigned this family to the class Proteobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1988. Publication: Ivanova EP, Mikhailov VV. [A new family of Alteromonadaceae fam. nov., including the marine proteobacteria species Alteromonas, Pseudoalteromonas, Idiomarina i Colwellia]. Mikrobiologiia 2001; 70:15-23.
  • 🧕 Ivanova et al. (2004) assigned this family to the class "Gammaproteobacteria". Publication: Ivanova EP, Flavier S, Christen R. Phylogenetic relationships among marine Alteromonas-like proteobacteria: emended description of the family Alteromonadaceae and proposal of Pseudoalteromonadaceae fam. nov., Colwelliaceae fam. nov., Shewanellaceae fam. nov., Moritellaceae fam. nov., Ferrimonadaceae fam. nov., Idiomarinaceae fam. nov. and Psychromonadaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1773-1788.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Microbulbifer González et al. 1997 to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Colwellia Deming et al. 1988 to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Pseudoalteromonas Gauthier et al. 1995 to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Psychromonas Mountfort et al. 1998 to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Boone et al. (2001) assigned the genus Shewanella MacDonell and Colwell 1986 to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned the genus Alishewanella Fonnesbech Vogel et al. 2000 to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned the genus Ferrimonas Rosselló-Mora et al. 1996 to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned the genus Idiomarina Ivanova et al. 2000 to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned the genus Moritella Urakawa et al. 1999 to this family. 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.
  • 🧒 Ivanova and Mikhailov (2001) assigned the genus Colwellia Deming et al. 1988 to this family. Publication: Ivanova EP, Mikhailov VV. [A new family of Alteromonadaceae fam. nov., including the marine proteobacteria species Alteromonas, Pseudoalteromonas, Idiomarina i Colwellia]. Mikrobiologiia 2001; 70:15-23.
  • 🧒 Ivanova and Mikhailov (2001) assigned the genus Idiomarina Ivanova et al. 2000 to this family. Publication: Ivanova EP, Mikhailov VV. [A new family of Alteromonadaceae fam. nov., including the marine proteobacteria species Alteromonas, Pseudoalteromonas, Idiomarina i Colwellia]. Mikrobiologiia 2001; 70:15-23.
  • 🧒 Ivanova and Mikhailov (2001) assigned the genus Pseudoalteromonas Gauthier et al. 1995 to this family. Publication: Ivanova EP, Mikhailov VV. [A new family of Alteromonadaceae fam. nov., including the marine proteobacteria species Alteromonas, Pseudoalteromonas, Idiomarina i Colwellia]. Mikrobiologiia 2001; 70:15-23.
  • 🧒 Urios et al. (2008) assigned the genus Melitea Urios et al. 2008 to this family. Publication: Urios L, Agogue H, Intertaglia L, Lesongeur F, Lebaron P. Melitea salexigens gen. nov., sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium from the Mediterranean Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2479-2483.
  • 🧒 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned the genus Haliea Urios et al. 2008 to this family. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • 🧒 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned the genus Marinimicrobium Lim et al. 2006 to this family. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • 🧒 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned the genus Saccharophagus Ekborg et al. 2005 to this family. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • 🧒 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned the genus "Candidatus Neomarinimicrobium" corrig. Rinke et al. 2013 to this family. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Alteromondaceae"; "Alteromononadaceae"; "Alteronomonadaceae"; "Altreomonadaceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Van Trappen et al. (2004), Jean et al. (2013), Meng et al. (2021), Dong et al. (2019). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 101; DSM: 88; JCM: 76; MCCC: 46; CIP: 41; ATCC: 38; CGMCC: 33; NBRC: 28; NCIMB: 20; CCUG: 20.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 28
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 31
Total number of child taxa: 33

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aestuariibacter Yi et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agaribacter Teramoto and Nishijima 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agarivorans Kurahashi and Yokota 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Algibacillus Meng et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alginatibacterium Wang et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Aliagarivorans Jean et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Aliiglaciecola Jean et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alkalimarinus Zhao et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alteromonas Baumann et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bowmanella Jean et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Brumicola Rey-Velasco et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Catenovulum Yan et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Fluctibacter Emsley et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Gayadomonas" Chi et al. 2013	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Glaciecola Bowman et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Hydrocarboniclastica Dong et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lacimicrobium Zhong et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mangrovitalea Liao et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Marinifaba" Sui et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Marinobacter Gauthier et al. 1992	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Marinobacterium González et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Marisediminitalea Zhang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Neptunicella Liu et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ningiella Fotedar et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Opacimonas Lin et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Paraglaciecola Shivaji and Reddy 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Paraneptunicella Zhang et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Planctobacterium Sheu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudobowmanella Du et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Saccharobesus Amrina et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Salinimonas Jeon et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Saliniradius Kang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Tamilnaduibacter Verma et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Alteromonadales Bowman and McMeekin 2005

Assigned by: Bowman JP, McMeekin TA. Order X. Alteromonadales ord. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 443.

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