Name: Spongiibacter Graeber et al. 2008

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Spon.gi.i.bac’ter. L. fem. n. spongia, sponge; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Spongiibacter, a rod-shaped bacterium isolated from a sponge

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Spongiibacter-), spon-gi-i-BAK-ter

Type species: Spongiibacter marinus Graeber et al. 2008

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Graeber I, Kaesler I, Borchert MS, Dieckmann R, Pape T, Lurz R, Nielsen P, von Dohren H, Michaelis W, Szewzyk U. Spongiibacter marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic marine bacterium isolated from the boreal sponge Haliclona sp. 1. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:585-590.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1273-1274.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Jang et al. 2011 Jang GI, Hwang CY, Choi HG, Kang SH, Cho BC. Description of Spongiibacter borealis sp. nov., isolated from Arctic seawater, and reclassification of Melitea salexigens Urios et al. 2008 as a later heterotypic synonym of Spongiibacter marinus Graeber et al. 2008 with emended descriptions of the genus Spongiibacter and Spongiibacter marinus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2895-2900. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:476-477.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
    • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Spongiibacteraceae 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.
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Melitea Urios et al. 2008. Publication: Urios L, Agogue H, Intertaglia L, Lesongeur F, Lebaron P. Melitea salexigens gen. nov., sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium from the Mediterranean Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2479-2483.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Neomelitea Deshmukh and Oren 2023. Publication: Deshmukh UB, Oren A. Proposal of Christiangramia gen. nov., Neomelitea gen. nov. and Nicoliella gen. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic generic names Gramella Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005, Melitea Urios et al. 2008 and Nicolia Oliphant et al. 2022, respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5806.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Spongiobacter".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Jang et al. (2011), Yoon (2022). 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 terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCCM: 4; DSM: 3; JCM: 2; NBRC: 2; BCRC: 1; CCUG: 1; MOLA: 1; KCTC: 1; CIP: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Spongiibacter borealis Jang et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Spongiibacter marinus Graeber et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Spongiibacter nanhainus" Shan et al. 2022	not validly published	preferred name
    Spongiibacter pelagi Yoon 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Spongiibacter salexigens" (Urios et al. 2008) Flores-Félix et al. 2025	not validly published	synonym
    Spongiibacter taiwanensis Jean et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Spongiibacter thalassae Yoon 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Spongiibacter tropicus Hwang and Cho 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Spongiibacteraceae 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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