Family Umboniibacteraceae

Name: Umboniibacteraceae Ho et al. 2025

Category, proposed as: family, fam. nov.

Etymology: Um.bo.ni.i.bac.te.ra’ce.ae. N.L. neut. n. Umbonium, scientific name of a genus of marine mollusc; N.L. masc. n. Umboniibacter, referring to the isolation of the first strains from the sand snail U. costatum; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Umboniibacteraceae, the Umboniibacter family

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: um-bo-ni-i-bak-te-RA-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Umboniibacter Romanenko et al. 2010

Effective publication: Ho JY, Koh XQ, Kang DY, Low A, Hu D, Haryono MAS, Williams RBH, Case RJ, Boucher YF. Discovery of a phylogenetically novel tropical marine Gammaproteobacteria elucidated from assembled genomes and the proposed transfer of the genus Umboniibacter from the family Cellvibrionaceae to Umboniibacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2025; 16:1437936. 🇸🇬

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 225. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6863.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Cellvibrionaceae Spring et al. 2015

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Cellvibrionaceae Spring et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Ho et al. (2025) assigned this family to the class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Ho JY, Koh XQ, Kang DY, Low A, Hu D, Haryono MAS, Williams RBH, Case RJ, Boucher YF. Discovery of a phylogenetically novel tropical marine Gammaproteobacteria elucidated from assembled genomes and the proposed transfer of the genus Umboniibacter from the family Cellvibrionaceae to Umboniibacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2025; 16:1437936. 🇸🇬
  • 🧕 Ho et al. (2025) assigned this family to the order Cellvibrionales Spring et al. 2015. Publication: Ho JY, Koh XQ, Kang DY, Low A, Hu D, Haryono MAS, Williams RBH, Case RJ, Boucher YF. Discovery of a phylogenetically novel tropical marine Gammaproteobacteria elucidated from assembled genomes and the proposed transfer of the genus Umboniibacter from the family Cellvibrionaceae to Umboniibacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2025; 16:1437936. 🇸🇬
  • 🧒 Ho et al. (2025) assigned the genus Umboniibacter Romanenko et al. 2010 to this family. Publication: Ho JY, Koh XQ, Kang DY, Low A, Hu D, Haryono MAS, Williams RBH, Case RJ, Boucher YF. Discovery of a phylogenetically novel tropical marine Gammaproteobacteria elucidated from assembled genomes and the proposed transfer of the genus Umboniibacter from the family Cellvibrionaceae to Umboniibacteraceae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2025; 16:1437936. 🇸🇬
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Cellvibrionaceae Spring et al. 2015. 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. 🇩🇪
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. The expression "monophyletic clade" is a pleonasm. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281. 🇬🇧
  • ❗ Umboniibacteraceae is the correct name instead if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

Parent taxon: Cellvibrionales Spring et al. 2015

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — 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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