Name: Microbulbiferaceae Spring et al. 2015

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Mi.cro.bul.bi.fer.a’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Microbulbifer, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Microbulbiferaceae, the Microbulbifer family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Microbulbifer González et al. 1997

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

• Notes:
  • 🧕 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.
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Alteromonadaceae Ivanova and Mikhailov 2001. 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.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 16; KCTC: 14; DSM: 8; MCCC: 8; ATCC: 4; CGMCC: 4; KCCM: 3; NCIMB: 2; CCM: 1; CIP: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Biformimicrobium Kawano et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer González et al. 1997	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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Record number: 2007