Name: Marinifilum Na et al. 2009

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ma.ri.ni.fi’lum. L. masc. adj. marinus, belonging to the sea; L. neut. n. filum, a thread; N.L. neut. n. Marinifilum, a thread belonging to or living in the sea

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Marinifil-), ma-ri-ni-FI-lum

Type species: Marinifilum fragile Na et al. 2009

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Na H, Kim S, Moon EY, Chun J. Marinifilum fragile gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from tidal flat sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2241-2246. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2921-2922.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Ruvira et al. 2013 Ruvira MA, Lucena T, Pujalte MJ, Arahal DR, Macian MC. Marinifilum flexuosum sp. nov., a new Bacteroidetes isolated from coastal Mediterranean Sea water and emended description of the genus Marinifilum Na et al., 2009. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:155-159. 🇪🇸 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 19. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:8-10.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Fu et al. 2018 Fu T, Jia C, Fu L, Zhou S, Yao P, Du R, Sun H, Yang Z, Shi X, Zhang XH. Marinifilum breve sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from the Yongle Blue Hole in the South China Sea and emended description of the genus Marinifilum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3540-3545. 🇨🇳 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:297-298.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Marinifilaceae Iino et al. 2014. Publication: Iino T, Mori K, Itoh T, Kudo T, Suzuki K, Ohkuma M. Description of Mariniphaga anaerophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively aerobic marine bacterium isolated from tidal flat sediment, reclassification of the Draconibacteriaceae as a later heterotypic synonym of the Prolixibacteraceae and description of the family Marinifilaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3660-3667. 🇯🇵
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the class "Bacteroidetes". Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Dai et al. (2022). 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: JCM: 5; MCCC: 4; KCTC: 4; DSM: 4; NBRC: 2; CECT: 2; CICC: 1; KACC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 11

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Marinifilum albidiflavum Xu et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Marinifilum antarcticum" (Watanabe et al. 2020) Zhang et al. 2025	not validly published	synonym
    Marinifilum breve Fu et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Marinifilum caeruleilacunae Dai et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Marinifilum filiforme" (Vandieken et al. 2019) Zhang et al. 2025	not validly published	synonym
    Marinifilum flexuosum Ruvira et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Marinifilum fragile Na et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Marinifilum manganireducens" (Vandieken et al. 2019) Zhang et al. 2025	not validly published	synonym
    "Marinifilum salipaludis" (Park et al. 2019) Zhang et al. 2025	not validly published	synonym
    "Marinifilum sediminis" Zhang et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    "Marinifilum subtilis" (Wu et al. 2016) Zhang et al. 2025	not validly published	synonym

Parent taxon: Marinifilaceae Iino et al. 2014

Assigned by: Iino T, Mori K, Itoh T, Kudo T, Suzuki K, Ohkuma M. Description of Mariniphaga anaerophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a facultatively aerobic marine bacterium isolated from tidal flat sediment, reclassification of the Draconibacteriaceae as a later heterotypic synonym of the Prolixibacteraceae and description of the family Marinifilaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3660-3667. 🇯🇵

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