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Family Roseobacteraceae
Name: Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021
Etymology: Ro.se.o.bac.te.ra’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Roseobacter, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Roseobacteraceae, the Roseobacter family
Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ro-se-o-bak-te-RA-ke-a͡e, feminine
Type genus: Roseobacter Shiba 1991
Effective publication:
Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109. 
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IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 202. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5096.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
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🧕 Liang et al. (2021) assigned this family to the class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006.
Publication:
Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Kong et al. (2022) assigned the genus Heliomarina Kong et al. 2022 to this family.
Publication:
Kong YH, Ren WT, Xu L, Cheng H, Zhou P, Wang CS, Wu YH, Xu XW. Mesobacterium pallidum gen. nov., sp. nov., Heliomarina baculiformis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Oricola indica sp. nov., three novel Alphaproteobacteria members isolated from deep-sea water in the southwest Indian ridge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5236. 🇨🇳
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🧒 Kong et al. (2022) assigned the genus Mesobacterium Kong et al. 2022 to this family.
Publication:
Kong YH, Ren WT, Xu L, Cheng H, Zhou P, Wang CS, Wu YH, Xu XW. Mesobacterium pallidum gen. nov., sp. nov., Heliomarina baculiformis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Oricola indica sp. nov., three novel Alphaproteobacteria members isolated from deep-sea water in the southwest Indian ridge. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5236. 🇨🇳
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🧒 Liang et al. (2021) assigned the genus "Falsiphaeobacter" Liang et al. 2021 to this family.
Publication:
Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Liang et al. (2021) assigned the genus "Pseudooctadecabater" to this family. — 🧒 Liang et al. (2021) assigned the genus "Tranquilimonas" to this family.
Publication:
Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109. 🇨🇦
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🧒 Nedashkovskaya et al. (2023) assigned the genus Rhodoalgimonas Nedashkovskaya et al. 2024 to this family.
Publication:
Nedashkovskaya O, Otstavnykh N, Balabanova L, Bystritskaya E, Kim S-G, Zhukova N, Tekutyeva L, Isaeva M. Rhodoalgimonas zhirmunskyi gen. nov., sp. nov., a Marine Alphaproteobacterium Isolated from the Pacific Red Alga Ahnfeltia tobuchiensis: Phenotypic Characterization and Pan-Genome Analysis. Microorganisms 2023; 11:2463. 🇷🇺
- 🚃 The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family I. Rhodobacteraceae 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 C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 161. 🇺🇸
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Rosebacteraceae".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Harwati et al. (2009), Billerbeck et al. (2015), Zhang et al. (2019), Martinez-Checa et al. (2005), Hahnke et al. (2024). 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: 378; DSM: 328; JCM: 214; MCCC: 156; LMG: 114; NBRC: 100; CECT: 88; CGMCC: 71; KACC: 65; CCUG: 59.
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🧕 Liang et al. (2021) assigned this family to the class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006.
Publication:
Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 143
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 180
Total number of child taxa: 194
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Actibacterium Lucena et al. 2012 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aestuariibius Park et al. 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aestuariicoccus Feng et al. 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aestuariihabitans Yoon et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aestuariivita Park et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aestuarium Yu et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP synonym Agaricicola Chu et al. 2010 validly published under the ICNP correct name Albibacillus Hördt et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Algirhabdus Nedashkovskaya et al. 2025 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Aliioceanicola" Liang et al. 2021 not validly published synonym Aliiphycobium Kim et al. 2025 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aliiroseovarius Park et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aliiruegeria Liang et al. 2021 validly published under the ICNP synonym Aliisedimentitalea Kim et al. 2025 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aliishimia Kim et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP correct name Alkalimicrobium Zhang et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP synonym Allosediminivita Hördt et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Alloyangia Deshmukh and Oren 2023 validly published under the ICNP correct name Amylibacter Teramoto and Nishijima 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Antarcticimicrobium Zhang et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Antarctobacter Labrenz et al. 1998 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aquicoccus Feng et al. 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aquimixticola Park et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP correct name Arenibacterium Baek et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Ascidiaceihabitans Kim et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Boseongicola Park et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Brevirhabdus Wu et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP correct name Carideicomes Wang et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Celeribacter Ivanova et al. 2010 validly published under the ICNP correct name Chachezhania Yuan et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Citreicella Sorokin et al. 2006 validly published under the ICNP synonym Citreimonas Choi and Cho 2006 validly published under the ICNP correct name Cognatishimia Wirth and Whitman 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Cognatiyoonia Wirth and Whitman 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Confluentimicrobium Park et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP synonym Cribrihabitans Chen et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Dinoroseobacter Biebl et al. 2005 validly published under the ICNP correct name Donghicola Yoon et al. 2007 validly published under the ICNP correct name Epibacterium Penesyan et al. 2013 validly published under the ICNP correct name Falsihalocynthiibacter Liang et al. 2021 validly published under the ICNP synonym Falsiroseicyclus Huang et al. 2024 validly published under the ICNP synonym Falsiruegeria Liang et al. 2021 validly published under the ICNP synonym Flavimaricola Wirth and Whitman 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Fluviibacterium Sun et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP synonym Gaetbulicola Yoon et al. 2010 validly published under the ICNP synonym Halocynthiibacter Kim et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Halodurantibacterium Lv et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP correct name Hasllibacter Kim et al. 2012 validly published under the ICNP correct name Histidinibacterium Wang et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP correct name Huaishuia Wang et al. 2012 validly published under the ICNP synonym Hwanghaeicola Kim et al. 2010 validly published under the ICNP synonym Jannaschia Wagner-Döbler et al. 2003 validly published under the ICNP correct name Jhaorihella Rekha et al. 2011 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Jindonia" Park et al. 2017 not validly published preferred name Kandeliimicrobium Wang et al. 2018 validly published under the ICNP synonym Kangsaoukella Lee et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Ketogulonicigenium" corrig. Urbance et al. 2001 not validly published preferred name "Ketogulonigenium" Urbance et al. 2001 inaccurate spelling misspelling "Candidatus Kopriimonas" Quinn et al. 2012 not validly published pro-correct name Lacimonas Zhong et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP correct name Leisingera Schaefer et al. 2002 validly published under the ICNP correct name Lentibacter Li et al. 2012 validly published under the ICNP correct name Limimaricola Wirth and Whitman 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Litoreibacter Romanenko et al. 2011 validly published under the ICNP correct name Litorimicrobium Jin et al. 2011 validly published under the ICNP correct name Litorisediminicola Yoon et al. 2013 validly published under the ICNP correct name Litorisediminivivens Park et al. 2016 validly published under the ICNP correct name Litorivita Hetharua et al. 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Loktanella Van Trappen et al. 2004 validly published under the ICNP correct name Lutimaribacter Yoon et al. 2009 validly published under the ICNP correct name Maliponia Jung et al. 2016 validly published under the ICNP correct name Mameliella Zheng et al. 2010 validly published under the ICNP correct name Mangrovicoccus Yu et al. 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Maribius Choi et al. 2007 validly published under the ICNP synonym Marimonas Thongphrom et al. 2017 validly published under the ICNP correct name Marinibacterium Li et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP correct name Marinovum Martens et al. 2006 validly published under the ICNP correct name Maritimibacter Lee et al. 2007 validly published under the ICNP correct name Marivita Hwang et al. 2009 validly published under the ICNP correct name Marivivens Park et al. 2016 validly published under the ICNP correct name Meinhardsimonia Hördt et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Meridianimarinicoccus Ren et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP correct name Monaibacterium Chernikova et al. 2017 validly published under the ICNP synonym Nautella Vandecandelaere et al. 2009 validly published under the ICNP synonym Neptunicoccus Zhang et al. 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Nereida Pujalte et al. 2005 validly published under the ICNP correct name Nioella Rajasabapathy et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Nitropelagi" Jeong and Lee 2016 inaccurate spelling misspelling "Nitropelagius" corrig. Jeong and Lee 2016 not validly published preferred name Oceanibium Chang et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP correct name Oceanibulbus Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004 validly published under the ICNP synonym Oceanicola Cho and Giovannoni 2004 validly published under the ICNP correct name Oceaniglobus Li et al. 2017 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Oceaniovalibus" Liu et al. 2012 not validly published preferred name Octadecabacter Gosink et al. 1998 validly published under the ICNP correct name Ovoidimarina Kathiresan et al. 2025 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pacificibacter Romanenko et al. 2011 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pacificitalea Hördt et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pacificoceanicola Yang et al. 2023 validly published under the ICNP correct name Paenimaribius Park et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP synonym Palleronia Martínez-Checa et al. 2005 validly published under the ICNP correct name Paradonghicola Lee et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP synonym Paramylibacter Huang et al. 2024 validly published under the ICNP synonym Paraphaeobacter Cai et al. 2017 validly published under the ICNP synonym Parasedimentitalea Ding et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Parasulfitobacter Xu et al. 2024 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pelagibaca Cho and Giovannoni 2006 validly published under the ICNP synonym Pelagicola Kim et al. 2008 validly published under the ICNP synonym Pelagimonas Hahnke et al. 2013 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pelagivirga Ji et al. 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pelagovum Ren et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Phaeobacter Martens et al. 2006 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Phaeomarinomonas" Pohlner et al. 2019 not validly published preferred name Phycobacter Coe et al. 2023 validly published under the ICNP correct name Phycobium Kim et al. 2025 validly published under the ICNP correct name Phycocomes Zhu et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP synonym "Candidatus Planktomarina" Giebel et al. 2011 not validly published synonym Planktomarina Giebel et al. 2013 validly published under the ICNP correct name Planktotalea Hahnke et al. 2012 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pontibaca Kim et al. 2010 validly published under the ICNP correct name Ponticoccus Hwang and Cho 2008 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pontivivens Park et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP correct name Poseidonocella Romanenko et al. 2012 validly published under the ICNP correct name Primorskyibacter Romanenko et al. 2011 validly published under the ICNP correct name Profundibacter Le Moine Bauer et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP correct name Profundibacterium Lai et al. 2013 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Profundibacterium" Lai 2012 not validly published synonym Pseudaestuariivita Wirth and Whitman 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudodonghicola Hameed et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudohalocynthiibacter Won et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudomaribius Park et al. 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudooceanicola Lai et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudooctadecabacter Billerbeck et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudopelagicola Kim et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP synonym Pseudophaeobacter Breider et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudoponticoccus Liang et al. 2022 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Pseudopontivivens" Park et al. 2018 not validly published preferred name Pseudoprimorskyibacter Hördt et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudopuniceibacterium Zhang et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP synonym Pseudoroseicyclus Park et al. 2016 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudoroseovarius Sun et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP synonym Pseudoruegeria Yoon et al. 2007 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudoseohaeicola Park et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pseudosulfitobacter Liang et al. 2022 validly published under the ICNP correct name Psychromarinibacter Qiao et al. 2017 validly published under the ICNP correct name Pukyongiella Kim et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Puniceibacterium Liu et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Rhodalgimonas corrig. Nedashkovskaya et al. 2024 validly published under the ICNP correct name Rhodoalgimonas Nedashkovskaya et al. 2024 inaccurate spelling misspelling Rhodophyticola Jung et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP correct name Rhodosalinus Guo et al. 2017 validly published under the ICNP correct name Rhodovulum Hiraishi and Ueda 1994 validly published under the ICNP correct name Roseibacterium Suzuki et al. 2006 validly published under the ICNP synonym Roseicyclus Rathgeber et al. 2005 validly published under the ICNP correct name Roseisalinus Labrenz et al. 2005 validly published under the ICNP correct name Roseivivax Suzuki et al. 1999 validly published under the ICNP correct name Roseobacter Shiba 1991 validly published under the ICNP correct name Roseovarius Labrenz et al. 1999 validly published under the ICNP correct name Rubellimicrobium Denner et al. 2006 validly published under the ICNP correct name Rubricella Yang et al. 2017 validly published under the ICNP correct name Ruegeria Uchino et al. 1999 validly published under the ICNP correct name Sagittula Gonzalez et al. 1997 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Saliniferula" Yoon and Oh 2026 not validly published preferred name Salinihabitans Yoon et al. 2009 validly published under the ICNP correct name Salinovum Qu et al. 2017 validly published under the ICNP correct name Salipiger Martínez-Cánovas et al. 2004 validly published under the ICNP correct name Sedimentitalea Breider et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Sediminimonas Wang et al. 2009 validly published under the ICNP correct name Seohaeicola Yoon et al. 2009 validly published under the ICNP correct name Shimia Choi and Cho 2006 validly published under the ICNP correct name Silicibacter Petursdottir and Kristjansson 1999 validly published under the ICNP synonym Silicimonas Crenn et al. 2016 validly published under the ICNP correct name Sinisalibacter Wang et al. 2021 validly published under the ICNP synonym Sulfitobacter Sorokin 1996 validly published under the ICNP correct name Tateyamaria Kurahashi and Yokota 2008 validly published under the ICNP correct name Thalassobacter Macián et al. 2005 validly published under the ICNP synonym Thalassobius Arahal et al. 2005 validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name in need of a replacement Thalassococcus Lee et al. 2007 validly published under the ICNP correct name Thalassovita Deshmukh and Oren 2023 validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name synonym Thalassovivens Lanclos et al. 2025 validly published under the ICNP correct name Thetidibacter Yoon 2024 validly published under the ICNP correct name Thiobacimonas Li et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP synonym Thiosulfatihalobacter Wu et al. 2022 validly published under the ICNP correct name Tranquillimonas Harwati et al. 2008 validly published under the ICNP correct name Tritonibacter Klotz et al. 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Tropicibacter Harwati et al. 2009 validly published under the ICNP correct name Tropicimonas Harwati et al. 2009 validly published under the ICNP correct name Vadicella Romanenko et al. 2011 validly published under the ICNP synonym Vannielia Hördt et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Wenxinia Ying et al. 2007 validly published under the ICNP correct name Xuhuaishuia Wang et al. 2016 validly published under the ICNP synonym Yangia Dai et al. 2006 validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name synonym Yoonia Wirth and Whitman 2018 validly published under the ICNP correct name Youngimonas Hameed et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Rhodobacterales Garrity et al. 2006
Assigned by:
Liang KYH, Orata FD, Boucher YF, Case RJ. Roseobacters in a Sea of Poly- and Paraphyly: Whole Genome-Based Taxonomy of the Family Rhodobacteraceae and the Proposal for the Split of the "Roseobacter Clade" Into a Novel Family, Roseobacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:683109. 🇨🇦
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