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Genus Oceanibulbus
Name: Oceanibulbus Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004
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: masculine (stem: Oceanibulb-)
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
Correct name: Sulfitobacter Sorokin 1996
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind Sulfitobacter Sorokin 1996 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP Staleya Labrenz et al. 2000 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
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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.
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🚂 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: DSM: 1; MCCC: 1; NCIMB: 1.
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
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Oceanibulbus indolifex Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004 validly published under the ICNP synonym
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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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Record number: 516190
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