Genus Polaribacter

Name: Polaribacter Gosink et al. 1998

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Po.lar.i.bac’ter. M.L. masc./fem. adj. polaris, pertaining to the geographic poles; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; from Gr. neut. n. baktron, for rod or staff; N.L. masc. n. Polaribacter, rod-shaped bacterium from a polar region

Gender: masculine (stem: Polaribacter-)

Type species: Polaribacter filamentus Gosink et al. 1998

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gosink JJ, Woese CR, Staley JT. Polaribacter gen. nov., with three new species, P. irgensii sp. nov., P. franzmannii sp. nov. and P. filamentus sp. nov., gas vacuolate polar marine bacteria of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides group and reclassification of 'Flectobacillus glomeratus' as Polaribacter glomeratus comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:223-235.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:629.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Fukui et al. 2013 Fukui Y, Abe M, Kobayashi M, Saito H, Oikawa H, Yano Y, Satomi M. Polaribacter porphyrae sp. nov., isolated from the red alga Porphyra yezoensis, and emended descriptions of the genus Polaribacter and two Polaribacter species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1665-1672. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:2755-2756.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
- Kim et al. 2013 Kim BC, Oh HW, Kim H, Park DS, Hong SG, Lee HK, Bae KS. Polaribacter sejongensis sp. nov., isolated from Antarctic soil, and emended descriptions of the genus Polaribacter, Polaribacter butkevichii and Polaribacter irgensii. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4000-4005. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:313-315.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
- Li et al. 2014 Li H, Zhang XY, Liu C, Lin CY, Xu Z, Chen XL, Zhou BC, Shi M, Zhang YZ. Polaribacter huanghezhanensis sp. nov., isolated from Arctic fjord sediment, and emended description of the genus Polaribacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:973-978. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1827-1829.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Polaribacer"; "Polarobacter". — 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Polaribacteria".
- 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bowman JP, Hugo C, Bernardet JF. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Aerobic Bacteroidetes (formerly Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-like bacteria). Minutes of the meeting, 30 July 2014, Montreal, Canada. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:507-509.
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Nedashkovskaya et al. (2018), Jeong et al. (2022), Park et al. (2017), Baek et al. (2024), Xu et al. (2020). 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: KCTC: 22; JCM: 7; NBRC: 6; DSM: 6; MCCC: 5; CIP: 4; ATCC: 4; CECT: 3; CCUG: 1; CGMCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 29
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 30
Total number of child taxa: 33

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
"Polaribacter aestuariivivens" Park et al. 2019	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
Polaribacter aquimarinus Xu et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter atrinae Hyun et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter batillariae Jeong et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter butkevichii Nedashkovskaya et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter cellanae Jeong et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter dokdonensis Yoon et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter filamentus Gosink et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter franzmannii Gosink et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter gangjinensis Lee et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter glomeratus (McGuire et al. 1988) Gosink et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter haliotis Kim et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter huanghezhanens Li et al. 2014	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
Polaribacter huanghezhanensis corrig. Li et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter insulae Park et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter irgensii Gosink et al. 1998	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter lacunae Kang et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter litorisediminis Park et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter marinaquae Wang et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter marinivivus Park et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter marinus Kristyanto et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter pacificus Wu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter pectinis Jeong et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter ponticola Baek et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter porphyrae Fukui et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter reichenbachii Nedashkovskaya et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter sejongensis Kim et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter septentrionalilitoris Choo et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter staleyi Nedashkovskaya et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter tangerinus Han et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Polaribacter undariae Park et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
"Polaribacter uvawellassae" Wanasinghe et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
Polaribacter vadi Kim et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992

Assigned by: Bernardet JF, Nakagawa Y, Holmes B. Proposed minimal standards for describing new taxa of the family Flavobacteriaceae and emended description of the family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1049-1070.

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Genus Polaribacter