Name: Cellvibrionaceae Spring et al. 2015

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Cell.vi.bri.o.na’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Cellvibrio, type genus of the family [probably better: Cellivibrio]; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Cellvibrionaceae, the Cellvibrio family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Cellvibrio (ex Winogradsky 1929) Blackall et al. 1986

Effective publication: Spring S, Scheuner C, Goker M, Klenk HP. A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:281.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 164. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2017-2025.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Umboniibacteraceae" Ho et al. 2025	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Flores-Felix et al. (2025) assigned this family to the order Pseudomonadales Orla-Jensen 1921 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Flores-Felix JD, Garcia-Fraile P, Saati-Santamaria Z. Harmony in diversity: Reorganizing the families within the order Pseudomonadales. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2025; 0:108321.
  • 🧕 Liao et al. (2020) assigned this family to the order Pseudomonadales Orla-Jensen 1921 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Liao H, Lin X, Li Y, Qu M, Tian Y. Reclassification of the Taxonomic Framework of Orders Cellvibrionales, Oceanospirillales, Pseudomonadales, and Alteromonadales in Class Gammaproteobacteria through Phylogenomic Tree Analysis. mSystems 2020; 5:e00543-20.
  • 🧕 Spring et al. (2015) assigned this family to the class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Spring S, Scheuner C, Goker M, Klenk HP. A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:281.
  • 🧒 Spring et al. (2015) assigned the genus "Candidatus Neomarinimicrobium" corrig. Rinke et al. 2013 to this family. Publication: Spring S, Scheuner C, Goker M, Klenk HP. A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:281.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Pseudomonadaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cellovibronaceae"; "Cellvibronaceae"; "Celvibrionaceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Altamia et al. (2021), Iwaki et al. (2018). 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: 29; DSM: 21; LMG: 12; JCM: 10; ATCC: 9; MCCC: 8; BCRC: 4; NCAIM: 3; NBRC: 3; CECT: 3.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 17
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 17
Total number of child taxa: 20

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Agaribacterium Huang et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agarilytica Ling et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Cellvibrio (ex Winogradsky 1929) Blackall et al. 1986	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Eionea Urios et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Endobugula" Haygood and Davidson 1997	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Exilibacterium Wang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Gilvimarinus Du et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Halioxenophilus Iwaki et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Maricurvus Iwaki et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Marinimicrobium Lim et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Pelagadaptatus" Ho et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Pseudomaricurvus Iwaki et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pseudoteredinibacter Chen et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Saccharophagus Ekborg et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sessilibacter Liu et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Simiduia Shieh et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Teredinibacter Distel et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Teredinobacter" Ahuja 2000	not validly published	synonym
    Thalassocella Lucena et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Umboniibacter Romanenko et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Cellvibrionales Spring et al. 2015

Assigned by: Spring S, Scheuner C, Goker M, Klenk HP. A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:281.

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