Name: Marinilabiliaceae Ludwig et al. 2012

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Ma.ri.ni.la.bi.li.a’ce.ae. N.L. fem. n. Marinilabilia, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Marinilabiliaceae, the Marinilabilia family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ma-ri-ni-la-bi-li-A-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Marinilabilia Nakagawa and Yamasato 1996

Effective publication: Ludwig W, Euzéby J, Whitman WB. Family II. Marinilabiliaceae fam. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 49. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 143. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 10 genera in the family.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Wu et al. (2016) assigned this family to the order Marinilabiliales Wu et al. 2016. Publication: Wu WJ, Zhao JX, Chen GJ, Du ZJ. Description of Ancylomarina subtilis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from coastal sediment, proposal of Marinilabiliales ord. nov. and transfer of Marinilabiliaceae, Prolixibacteraceae and Marinifilaceae to the order Marinilabiliales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4243-4249. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Yu et al. (2023) assigned the genus Plebeiobacterium Yu et al. 2025 to this family. Publication: Yu W-X, Liang Q-Y, Du Z-J, Mu D-S. Characterization of Plebeiobacterium marinum gen. nov., sp. nov. and Plebeiobacterium sediminum sp. nov., revealing the potential nitrogen fixation capacity of the order Marinilabiliales. Front Mar Sci 2023; 10:1213051. 🇨🇳
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family "Rikenellaceae". 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: "Marinibiliaceae"; "Marinilabiaceae"; "Marinililiaceae".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bowman JP, Hugo C, Nicholson A, Hahnke R, Lau EF, Holmes B, Sutcliffe I. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the taxonomy of aerobic Bacteroidota. Minutes of the online meeting 25 April 2023. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6144. 🇦🇺
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bernardet JF, Bowman JP. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-like bacteria: Minutes of the meetings, 7 September 2011, Sapporo, Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2752-2754. 🇫🇷
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bowman JP, Bernardet JF, Frandsen Lau E. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Aerobic Bacteroidetes (formerly Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-like bacteria). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:6017-6020. 🇦🇺
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bowman JP. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Aerobic Bacteroidetes (formerly Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-like bacteria). Minutes of the open meeting, 10 July 2019, Glasgow, UK. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5966. 🇦🇺
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Wang et al. (2015). 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: 21; MCCC: 18; DSM: 12; JCM: 7; ATCC: 5; CICC: 4; CGMCC: 3; NCIMB: 3; KCCM: 2; IFO: 2.
  • 🧍 In Validation List No. 143, the year of publication of Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4 was erroneously cited as 2010. The correct year of publication should be 2011. Publication: Erratum. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2012; 62:1016. 🇩🇪

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 13
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 14
Total number of child taxa: 15

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Alkaliflexus Zhilina et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Alkalitalea Zhao and Chen 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Anaerophaga Denger et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Breznakibacter García-López et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Carboxylicivirga Yang et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Geofilum Miyazaki et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Labilibacter Lu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Mangroviflexus Zhao et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Marinilabilia Nakagawa and Yamasato 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Natronoflexus Sorokin et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Plebeiibacterium corrig. Yu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Plebeiobacterium Yu et al. 2025	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Saccharicrinis Yang et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Thermophagus Gao et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Xiashengella Huang et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Bacteroidales Krieg 2012

Assigned by: Krieg NR. Order I. Bacteroidales ord. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 25. 🇺🇸

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