Genus Sulfitobacter

Name: Sulfitobacter Sorokin 1996

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sul.fi.to.bac’ter. N.L. n. sulfis -itis, sulfite; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Sulfitobacter, sulfite rod

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Sulfitobacter-), sul-fi-to-BAK-ter

Type species: Sulfitobacter pontiacus Sorokin 1996

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

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 under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Synonyms:

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

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. 🇰🇷 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2451-2452.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 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.
- Liang et al. 2021 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. 🇨🇦 Oren A, Göker M. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 38. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5923.
  Notes:
  - ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 1 species from the genus.

Notes:
- 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Rhodobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006. Publication: 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. 🇺🇸
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Jitobacter"; "Sulfibobacter"; "Sulfitobater"; "Sulftobacter"; "Suljitobacter"; "Szilfitobacter". — 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Sulfitobacteria".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Fukui et al. (2015), Yoon et al. (2007), Lian et al. (2021), Park and Yoon (2021). 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: 16; DSM: 12; JCM: 12; NBRC: 9; MCCC: 6; LMG: 5; KACC: 5; ATCC: 5; KMM: 3; TBRC: 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: 31
Total number of child taxa: 33

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Sulfitobacter aestuarii Park et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter aestuariivivens Park and Yoon 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter albidus Kim et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Sulfitobacter alexandrii" Yang et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name
Sulfitobacter algicola Wang et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Sulfitobacter aquimarinus Shin et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter brevis Labrenz et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter delicatus Ivanova et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter donghicola Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter dubius Ivanova et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter faviae Kumari et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter geojensis Kwak et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter guttiformis (Labrenz et al. 2000) Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter indolifex (Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004) Liu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter litoralis Park et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter marinivivus Shin et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter marinus Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter maritimus Lian et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter mediterraneus Pukall et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter noctilucae Kwak et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter noctilucicola Kwak et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter pacificus Fukui et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter pontiacus Sorokin 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter porphyrae Fukui et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter profundi Song et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter pseudonitzschiae Hong et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Sulfitobacter rhodophyticola Choi et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter sabulilitoris Park et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter salinus Yoon 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Sulfitobacter sediminilitoris" Park et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name
Sulfitobacter sediminis Jayan et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter sediminivivens Kathiresan et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Sulfitobacter undariae Park et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

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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Genus Sulfitobacter