Genus Pelagibaca

Name: Pelagibaca Cho and Giovannoni 2006

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pe.la.gi.ba’ca. L. neut. n. pelagus, the open sea, the ocean; L. fem. n. baca, berry, especially olive; N.L. fem. n. Pelagibaca, an olive-shaped bacterium of the open ocean

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Pelagibac-), pe-la-gi-BA-ka

Type species: Pelagibaca bermudensis Cho and Giovannoni 2006

Valid publication: Cho JC, Giovannoni SJ. Pelagibaca bermudensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium within the Roseobacter clade in the order Rhodobacterales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:855-859. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1461-1462.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Salipiger Martínez-Cánovas et al. 2004

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Citreicella Sorokin et al. 2006	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Salipiger Martínez-Cánovas et al. 2004	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Paraphaeobacter Cai et al. 2017	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Thiobacimonas Li et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- 🧕 Wirth and Whitman (2018) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: Wirth JS, Whitman WB. Phylogenomic analyses of a clade within the roseobacter group suggest taxonomic reassignments of species of the genera Aestuariivita, Citreicella, Loktanella, Nautella, Pelagibaca, Ruegeria, Thalassobius, Thiobacimonas and Tropicibacter, and the proposal of six novel genera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2393-2411. 🇺🇸
- 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Salipiger Martínez-Cánovas et al. 2004. Publication: Wirth JS, Whitman WB. Phylogenomic analyses of a clade within the roseobacter group suggest taxonomic reassignments of species of the genera Aestuariivita, Citreicella, Loktanella, Nautella, Pelagibaca, Ruegeria, Thalassobius, Thiobacimonas and Tropicibacter, and the proposal of six novel genera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2393-2411. 🇺🇸
- ❗ Pelagibaca 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: CGMCC: 1; DSM: 1; KCTC: 1; JCM: 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: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
"Pelagibaca abyssi" Lin et al. 2014	not validly published	synonym
Pelagibaca bermudensis Cho and Giovannoni 2006	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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