Name: Endozoicomonadaceae Bartz et al. 2018

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: En.do.zo.i.co.mo.na.da’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Endozoicomonas, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Endozoicomonadaceae, the Endozoicomonas family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: en-do-zo-i-ko-mo-na-DA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Endozoicomonas Kurahashi and Yokota 2007

Effective publication: Bartz JO, Blom J, Busse HJ, Mvie JB, Hardt M, Schubert P, Wilke T, Goessmann A, Wilharm G, Bender J, et al. Parendozoicomonas haliclonae gen. nov. sp. nov. isolated from a marine sponge of the genus Haliclona and description of the family Endozoicomonadaceae fam. nov. comprising the genera Endozoicomonas, Parendozoicomonas, and Kistimonas. Syst Appl Microbiol 2018; 41:73-84. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 182. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2130-2133.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Flores-Félix et al. 2025 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. 🇪🇸 Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 42. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6793.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 4 genera in the family.

• 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. 🇪🇸
  • 🧒 Flores-Felix et al. (2025) assigned the genus Sansalvadorimonas Goldberg et al. 2018 to this family. 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. 🇪🇸
  • 🧒 Flores-Felix et al. (2025) assigned the genus Aestuariirhabdus Khan et al. 2020 to this family. 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. 🇪🇸
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family "Zooshikellaceae" Liao et al. 2020. 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. 🇨🇳
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Hahellaceae Garrity et al. 2005. 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: "Endozociomonadaceae"; "Endozoicimonaceae"; "Endozoicmonadaceae"; "Endozoicomodaceae"; "Endozoicomonaceae"; "Endozoicomoniaceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Goldberg 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.01104 (N = 15).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 9; LMG: 7; JCM: 6; KACC: 3; BCRC: 3; KCTC: 3; UCCCB: 2; NCCB: 2; NBRC: 1; CECT: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Acestibacter" Jensen et al. 2010	not validly published	pro-correct name
    Endozoicomonas Kurahashi and Yokota 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Gorgonimonas" Keller-Costa et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    Kistimonas Choi et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Parendozoicomonas Bartz et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Sororendozoicomonas" Maire et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    Spongorhabdus Oliveira et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Oceanospirillales Garrity et al. 2005

Assigned by: Bartz JO, Blom J, Busse HJ, Mvie JB, Hardt M, Schubert P, Wilke T, Goessmann A, Wilharm G, Bender J, et al. Parendozoicomonas haliclonae gen. nov. sp. nov. isolated from a marine sponge of the genus Haliclona and description of the family Endozoicomonadaceae fam. nov. comprising the genera Endozoicomonas, Parendozoicomonas, and Kistimonas. Syst Appl Microbiol 2018; 41:73-84. 🇩🇪

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