Genus Sulfitobacter

Name: Sulfitobacter Sorokin 1996

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: N.L. n. sulfis -itis, sulfite; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Sulfitobacter, sulfite rod

Type species: Sulfitobacter pontiacus Sorokin 1996

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Effective publication: Sorokin DY. Sulfitobacter pontiacus gen. nov., sp. nov.—a new heterotrophic bacterium from the Black Sea, specialized on sulfite oxidation. Mikrobiologiya 1995; 64:354-365.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 56. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:362-363.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Oceanibulbus Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004	heterotypic synonym, validly published
Staleya Labrenz et al. 2000	heterotypic synonym, validly published

Emendations:
- Yoon et al. 2007 Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Lee MH, Oh TK. Description of Sulfitobacter donghicola sp. nov., isolated from seawater of the East Sea in Korea, transfer of Staleya guttiformis Labrenz et al. 2000 to the genus Sulfitobacter as Sulfitobacter guttiformis comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Sulfitobacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1788-1792.
  Notes:
  - Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 20
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 20
Total number of child taxa: 21

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Sulfitobacter aestuarii Park et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter brevis Labrenz et al. 2000	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter delicatus Ivanova et al. 2004	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter donghicola Yoon et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter dubius Ivanova et al. 2004	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter faviae Kumari et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter geojensis Kwak et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter guttiformis (Labrenz et al. 2000) Yoon et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter indolifex (Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004) Liu et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter litoralis Park et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter marinus Yoon et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter mediterraneus Pukall et al. 1999	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter noctilucae Kwak et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter noctilucicola Kwak et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter pacificus Fukui et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter pontiacus Sorokin 1996	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter porphyrae Fukui et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
"Sulfitobacter profundi" Song et al. 2019	not validly published
Sulfitobacter pseudonitzschiae Hong et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter sabulilitoris Park et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
Sulfitobacter undariae Park et al. 2015	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: 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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