Name: Oceanospirillaceae Garrity et al. 2005

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: O.ce.a.no.spi.ril.la’ce.ae. N.L. neut. dim. n. Oceanospirillum, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Oceanospirillaceae, the Oceanospirillum family

Pronunciation, gender: o-ke-a-no-spi-ril-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Oceanospirillum Hylemon et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Oceanospirillaceae fam. 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. 271. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 106. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2235-2238.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

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

• Emendations:
  • Joshi et al. 2025 Joshi A, Thite S, Godbole D, Boruah D, Sindhu DK, Prabhu A, Joseph N, Yadav A, Sharma A, Lodha T. Genomic insights into Marinospirillum alkalitolerans sp. nov., a novel PHB producing bacterium from an Indian impact crater, and an emended description of family Oceanospirillaceae. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2025; 118:53. 🇮🇳 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 1 genus in the family.
  • 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 removal of 21 genera from 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. 🇪🇸
  • 🧕 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. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned the genus Balneatrix Dauga et al. 1993 to this family. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Oceanospirillaceae fam. 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. 271. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Joshi et al. (2025) assigned the genus Terasakiispira Zepeda et al. 2015 to this family. Publication: Joshi A, Thite S, Godbole D, Boruah D, Sindhu DK, Prabhu A, Joseph N, Yadav A, Sharma A, Lodha T. Genomic insights into Marinospirillum alkalitolerans sp. nov., a novel PHB producing bacterium from an Indian impact crater, and an emended description of family Oceanospirillaceae. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2025; 118:53. 🇮🇳
  • 🧒 Kang et al. (2016) assigned the genus Reinekea Romanenko et al. 2004 to this family. Publication: Kang H, Kim H, Joung Y, Joh K. Reinekea marina sp. nov., isolated from seawater, and emended description of the genus Reinekea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:360-364. 🇰🇷
  • 🧒 Saeedi et al. (2021) assigned the genus Venatorbacter Saeedi et al. 2023 to this family. Publication: Saeedi A, Cummings NJ, McLean D, Connerton IF, Connerton PL. Venatorbacter cucullus gen. nov sp. nov a novel bacterial predator. Sci Rep 2021; 11:21393. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned the genus Sinobacterium Su et al. 2013 to this family. 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: "Ocenanospirillaceae".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Yakimov et al. (2004), Jang et al. (2015), Chen et al. (2013). 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: 45; DSM: 42; LMG: 40; JCM: 40; NBRC: 28; MCCC: 28; CIP: 26; ATCC: 24; CECT: 19; NCIMB: 16.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 24
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 26
Total number of child taxa: 29

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Aliamphritea Yamano et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Allopseudospirillum Molinari Novoa and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Amphritea Gärtner et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bacterioplanes Wang et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bacterioplanoides Wang et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Bermanella Pinhassi et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Corallomonas Chen et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Litoribacillus Zhao et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Litoribrevibacter Li et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Maribrevibacterium Mo et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Marinomonas van Landschoot and De Ley 1984	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Marinospirillum Satomi et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Motiliproteus Wang et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Neptuniibacter Arahal et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Neptunomonas Hedlund et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Nitrincola Dimitriu et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Oceaniserpentilla Schlösser et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Oceanobacter Satomi et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Oceanospirillum Hylemon et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Oleibacter Teramoto et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Oleispira Yakimov et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Parathalassolituus Chen et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Pelagitalea" Lee et al. 2015	not validly published	preferred name
    Pontibacterium Hyeon et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Profundimonas" Cao et al. 2014	not validly published	preferred name
    Pseudospirillum Satomi et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym
    Thalassolituus Yakimov et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Venatorbacter Saeedi et al. 2023	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Venatoribacter corrig. Saeedi et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Oceanospirillales Garrity et al. 2005

Assigned by: 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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