Genus Spongiibacterium

Name: Spongiibacterium Yoon and Oh 2012

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Spon.gi.i.bac.te’ri.um. L. fem. n. spongia, sponge; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. n. Spongiibacterium, a rod-shaped bacterium isolated from a sponge

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Spongiibacteri-), spon-gi-i-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: Spongiibacterium flavum Yoon and Oh 2012

Valid publication: Yoon BJ, Oh DC. Spongiibacterium flavum gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the marine sponge Halichondria oshoro, and emended descriptions of the genera Croceitalea and Flagellimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1158-1164. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1723-1724.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Flagellimonas Bae et al. 2007

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Allomuricauda Deshmukh and Oren 2023	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
Muricauda Bruns et al. 2001	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
Flagellimonas Bae et al. 2007	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- Gao et al. 2015 Gao X, Zhang Z, Dai X, Zhang XH. Spongiibacterium pacificum sp. nov., isolated from seawater of South Pacific Gyre and emended description of the genus Spongiibacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:154-158. 🇨🇳 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1112-1113.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
- García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
  Notes:
  - ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 1 species from the genus.

Notes:
- 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Flagellimonas Bae et al. 2007. Publication: Choi S, Lee JH, Kang JW, Choe HN, Seong CN. Flagellimonas aquimarina sp. nov., and transfer of Spongiibacterium flavum Yoon and Oh 2012 and S. pacificum Gao et al. 2015 to the genus Flagellimonas Bae et al. 2007 as Flagellimonas flava comb. nov. and F. pacifica comb. nov., respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3266-3272. 🇰🇷
- ❗ Spongiibacterium 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.03884 (N = 4).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 3; KCTC: 3; LMG: 1; NBRC: 1; JCM: 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: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Spongiibacterium flavum Yoon and Oh 2012	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Spongiibacterium fuscum Yoon et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	orphaned species
Spongiibacterium pacificum Gao et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992

Assigned by: Yoon BJ, Oh DC. Spongiibacterium flavum gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the marine sponge Halichondria oshoro, and emended descriptions of the genera Croceitalea and Flagellimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1158-1164. 🇰🇷

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