Name: "Litoribrevibacteraceae" Flores-Felix et al. 2025

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Li.to.ri.bre.vi.bac.te.ra’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Litoribrevibacter, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Litoribrevibacteraceae, the Litoribrevibacter family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Litoribrevibacter Li et al. 2015

Original 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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Oceanospirillaceae Garrity et al. 2005

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Nitrincolaceae" Flores-Felix et al. 2025	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Oceanobacteraceae" Flores-Felix et al. 2025	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Oceanospirillaceae Garrity et al. 2005	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Marinomonadaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• 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 Litoribacillus Zhao et al. 2014 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 been placed in the family Oceanospirillaceae Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Li Y, Zhu H, Lai Q, Lei X, Zhang H, Chen Z, Zheng W, Tian Y, Xu H, Zheng T. Litoribrevibacter albus gen. nov. sp. nov., isolated from coastal seawater, Fujian Province, China. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 106:911-918.

Parent taxon: Oceanospirillales Garrity et al. 2005

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. 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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