Name: "Aquidulcibacteraceae" Hallgren et al. 2025

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: A.qui.dul.ci.bac.te.ra’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Aquidulcibacter, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Aquidulcibacteraceae, the family of the genus Aquidulcibacter

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: a-kwi-dul-ki-bak-te-RA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Aquidulcibacter Cai et al. 2018

Original publication: Hallgren J, Dharamshi JE, Rodriguez-Gijon A, Nuy J, Garcia SL, Jonas K. Widespread potential for phototrophy and convergent reduction of lifecycle complexity in the dimorphic order Caulobacterales. Nat Commun 2025; 16:11003. 🇸🇪

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Caulobacteraceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Caulobacteraceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hallgren et al. (2025) assigned this family to the class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Hallgren J, Dharamshi JE, Rodriguez-Gijon A, Nuy J, Garcia SL, Jonas K. Widespread potential for phototrophy and convergent reduction of lifecycle complexity in the dimorphic order Caulobacterales. Nat Commun 2025; 16:11003. 🇸🇪
  • 🧕 Hallgren et al. (2025) assigned this family to the order Caulobacterales Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Hallgren J, Dharamshi JE, Rodriguez-Gijon A, Nuy J, Garcia SL, Jonas K. Widespread potential for phototrophy and convergent reduction of lifecycle complexity in the dimorphic order Caulobacterales. Nat Commun 2025; 16:11003. 🇸🇪
  • 🧒 Hallgren et al. (2025) assigned the genus Aquidulcibacter Cai et al. 2018 to this family. Publication: Hallgren J, Dharamshi JE, Rodriguez-Gijon A, Nuy J, Garcia SL, Jonas K. Widespread potential for phototrophy and convergent reduction of lifecycle complexity in the dimorphic order Caulobacterales. Nat Commun 2025; 16:11003. 🇸🇪
  • 🧒 Hallgren et al. (2025) assigned the genus Vitreimonas Asem et al. 2020 to this family. Publication: Hallgren J, Dharamshi JE, Rodriguez-Gijon A, Nuy J, Garcia SL, Jonas K. Widespread potential for phototrophy and convergent reduction of lifecycle complexity in the dimorphic order Caulobacterales. Nat Commun 2025; 16:11003. 🇸🇪
  • 🧒 Hallgren et al. (2025) assigned the genus Terricaulis Vieira et al. 2020 to this family. Publication: Hallgren J, Dharamshi JE, Rodriguez-Gijon A, Nuy J, Garcia SL, Jonas K. Widespread potential for phototrophy and convergent reduction of lifecycle complexity in the dimorphic order Caulobacterales. Nat Commun 2025; 16:11003. 🇸🇪
  • 🧒 Hallgren et al. (2025) assigned the genus Pseudaquidulcibacter Liu et al. 2022 to this family. Publication: Hallgren J, Dharamshi JE, Rodriguez-Gijon A, Nuy J, Garcia SL, Jonas K. Widespread potential for phototrophy and convergent reduction of lifecycle complexity in the dimorphic order Caulobacterales. Nat Commun 2025; 16:11003. 🇸🇪
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Caulobacteraceae Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Cai H, Shi Y, Wang Y, Cui H, Jiang H. Aquidulcibacter paucihalophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of family Caulobacteraceae isolated from cyanobacterial aggregates in a eutrophic lake. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2017; 110:1169-1177. 🇨🇳
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Aquildulcibacteraceae".

Parent taxon: Caulobacterales Henrici and Johnson 1935 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria 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 C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1. 🇺🇸

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