Family Oleiphilaceae

Name: Oleiphilaceae Golyshin et al. 2002

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: O.le.i.phi.la’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Oleiphilus, the type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Oleiphilaceae, the Oleiphilus family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: o-le-i-p^hi-LA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Oleiphilus Golyshin et al. 2002

Valid publication: Golyshin PN, Chernikova TN, Abraham WR, Lunsdorf H, Timmis KN, Yakimov MM. Oleiphilaceae fam. nov., to include Oleiphilus messinensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium that obligately utilizes hydrocarbons. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:901-911. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1077-1079.

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. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 De la Haba et al. (2023) assigned the genus Halovibrio Fendrich 1989 to this family. Publication: de la Haba RR, Arahal DR, Sanchez-Porro C, Chuvochina M, Wittouck S, Hugenholtz P, Ventosa A. A long-awaited taxogenomic investigation of the family Halomonadaceae. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1293707. 🇪🇸
  • 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Marinobacteraceae Liao et al. 2021. 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.42128 (N = 11).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 2; MCCC: 2; DSM: 1; LMG: 1.
  • 🧍 Oleiphilaceae is in the feminine gender, not in the neuter gender as cited by Golyshin et al. 2002. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592. 🇫🇷

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Neooleiphilus" Huang and Lai 2026	not validly published	preferred name
    Oleiphilus Golyshin et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Paroleiphilus" Huang and Lai 2026	not validly published	preferred 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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