Name: "Candidatus Pelagibacteraceae" Thrash et al. 2011

Category: Family

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: Pe.la.gi.bac.te.ra’ce.ae. N.L. fem. pl. n. Pelagibacteraceae, the Pelagibacter family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: pe-la-gi-bak-te-RA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: "Candidatus Pelagibacter" Rappé et al. 2002

Effective publication: Thrash JC, Boyd A, Huggett MJ, Grote J, Carini P, Yoder RJ, Robbertse B, Spatafora JW, Rappe MS, Giovannoni SJ. Phylogenomic evidence for a common ancestor of mitochondria and the SAR11 clade. Sci Rep 2011; 1:13. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Thrash et al. (2011) assigned this family to the order Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Thrash JC, Boyd A, Huggett MJ, Grote J, Carini P, Yoder RJ, Robbertse B, Spatafora JW, Rappe MS, Giovannoni SJ. Phylogenomic evidence for a common ancestor of mitochondria and the SAR11 clade. Sci Rep 2011; 1:13. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Henson et al. (2018) assigned the genus "Candidatus Fonsibacter" Henson et al. 2018 to this family. Publication: Henson MW, Lanclos VC, Faircloth BC, Thrash JC. Cultivation and genomics of the first freshwater SAR11 (LD12) isolate. ISME J 2018; 12:1846-1860. 🇺🇸

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Allofontibacter" corrig. Henson et al. 2018	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Candidatus Fonsibacter" Henson et al. 2018	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    "Candidatus Fontibacterium" Fernandes et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    "Candidatus Pelagibacter" Rappé et al. 2002	not validly published	pro-correct name
    "Pelagilacustribacter" Fernandes et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: "Candidatus Pelagibacterales" Grote et al. 2012

Assigned by: Grote J, Thrash JC, Huggett MJ, Landry ZC, Carini P, Giovannoni SJ, Rappe MS. Streamlining and core genome conservation among highly divergent members of the SAR11 clade. mBio 2012; 3:1-13. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 215