Name: "Asteriscibacter" Park et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: As.te.ris.ci.bac’ter. L. masc. n. asteriscus, small star or asterisk mark; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Asteriscibacter, bacterium that forms star-shaped aggregates

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Asteriscibacter-), as-te-ris-ki-BAK-ter

Type species: "Asteriscibacter flavus" (Goldberg et al. 2022) Park et al. 2025

Original publication: Park MJ, Kim J, Kim YJ, Yu J, Jin H, Woo S, Zo YG, Kwon KK. Genome-based reclassification of the family Stappiaceae and assessment of environmental forcing with the report of two novel taxa, Flexibacterium corallicola gen. nov., sp. nov., and Nesiotobacter zosterae sp. nov., isolated from coral and seagrass. PLoS One 2025; 20:e0322500.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Pseudovibrio Shieh et al. 2004

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Nesiotobacter Donachie et al. 2006	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Pseudovibrio Shieh et al. 2004	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Pseudovibrio Shieh et al. 2004. Publication: Goldberg SR, Haltli BA, Correa H, Kerr RG. Pseudovibrio flavus sp. nov. isolated from the sea sponge Verongula gigantea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5457.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Astericibacter".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 1; LMG: 1.

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: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Asteriscibacter flavus" (Goldberg et al. 2022) Park et al. 2025	not validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Stappiaceae Hördt et al. 2020

Assigned by: Park MJ, Kim J, Kim YJ, Yu J, Jin H, Woo S, Zo YG, Kwon KK. Genome-based reclassification of the family Stappiaceae and assessment of environmental forcing with the report of two novel taxa, Flexibacterium corallicola gen. nov., sp. nov., and Nesiotobacter zosterae sp. nov., isolated from coral and seagrass. PLoS One 2025; 20:e0322500.

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Record number: 65379