Genus Oceanibulbus

Name: Oceanibulbus Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: O.ce.a.ni.bul’bus. L. masc. n. oceanus, the ocean; L. masc. n. bulbus, a bulb, an onion; N.L. masc. n. Oceanibulbus, onion-like bacterium from the sea

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Oceanibulb-), o-ke-a-ni-BUL-bus

Type species: Oceanibulbus indolifex Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004

Valid publication: Wagner-Dobler I, Rheims H, Felske A, El-Ghezal A, Flade-Schroder D, Laatsch H, Lang S, Pukall R, Tindall BJ. Oceanibulbus indolifex gen. nov., sp. nov., a North Sea alphaproteobacterium that produces bioactive metabolites. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1177-1184. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1911-1913.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Sulfitobacter Sorokin 1996

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Billmartinia" Petersen et al. 2026	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
Staleya Labrenz et al. 2000	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Sulfitobacter Sorokin 1996	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to 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. 🇺🇸
- 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Sulfitobacter Sorokin 1996. Publication: Liu Y, Lai Q, Shao Z. Proposal for transfer of Oceanibulbus indolifex Wagner-Dobler et al. 2004 to the genus Sulfitobacter as Sulfitobacter indolifex comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2328-2331. 🇨🇳
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Oceanobulbus"; "Oecanibulbus".
- ❗ Oceanibulbus is the correct name instead if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: MCCC: 1; NCIMB: 1; DSM: 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: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Oceanibulbus indolifex Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021

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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