Name: Microbulbifer González et al. 1997

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Mi.cro.bul’bi.fer. Gr. masc. adj. mikros, small (may keep -o); L. masc. n. bulbus, onion, bulb; L. masc. adj. suff. -fer, carrying, bearing; N.L. masc. n. Microbulbifer, small bearer of bulbs

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Microbulbifer-), mi-kro-BUL-bi-fer

Type species: Microbulbifer hydrolyticus González et al. 1997

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gonzalez JM, Mayer F, Moran MA, Hodson RE, Whitman WB. Microbulbifer hydrolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., and Marinobacterium georgiense gen. nov., sp. nov., two marine bacteria from a lignin-rich pulp mill waste enrichment community. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:369-376. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 47, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:917-919.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Tang et al. 2008 Tang SK, Wang Y, Cai M, Lou K, Mao PH, Jin X, Jiang CL, Xu LH, Li WJ. Microbulbifer halophilus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from north-west China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2036-2040. 🇨🇳 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2675-2676.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Microbulbiferaceae 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. 🇩🇪
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Alteromonadaceae Ivanova and Mikhailov 2001. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Microbulhljer".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Baba et al. (2011), Yoon et al. (2007). 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: 16; KCTC: 14; MCCC: 10; DSM: 8; KACC: 5; CGMCC: 4; ATCC: 4; KCCM: 3; LMG: 3; NCIMB: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 35
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 35
Total number of child taxa: 39

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Microbulbifer aestuariivivens Park et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer agarilyticus Miyazaki et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer aggregans Moh et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Microbulbifer arenaceous" Tanaka et al. 2003	not validly published	preferred name
    Microbulbifer bruguierae Long et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer celer Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer chitinilyticus Baba et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Microbulbifer degradans" Howard et al. 2003	not validly published	preferred name
    Microbulbifer discodermiae Moon and Park 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer donghaiensis Wang et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer echini Lee et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer elongatus (Humm 1946) Yoon et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer epialgicus Nishijima et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer flavimaris Xiong et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer guangxiensis Fu et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer gwangyangensis Jeong et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer hainanensis Cheng et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer halophilus Tang et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer harenosus Huang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer hydrolyticus González et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer jejuensis Moon and Park 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Microbulbifer litoralis" Huang et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    Microbulbifer magnicolonia Tao et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer mangrovi Vashist et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer marinus Zhang et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer maritimus Yoon et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer okhotskensis Romanenko et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer okinawensis Baba et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer pacificus Jeong et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer rhizosphaerae Camacho et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer salipaludis Yoon et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer sediminum Fu et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer spongiae Ishaq et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer taiwanensis Kämpfer et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer thermotolerans Miyazaki et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer variabilis Nishijima et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Microbulbifer weihaiensis" Zhang and Liu 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Microbulbifer yueqingensis Zhang et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Microbulbifer zhoushanensis Fu et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Microbulbiferaceae Spring et al. 2015

Assigned by: 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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