Name: Sulfitobacter indolifex (Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004) Liu et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Oceanibulbus indolifex Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004

Etymology: in.do’li.fex. N.L. neut. n. indolum, indole; L. masc. n. suff. -fex, maker; from L. v. facio, to make; N.L. masc. n. indolifex, making indole/the indole maker

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 14862; HEL-45; MCCC 1A11773; NCIMB 13983

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ550939 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Liu Y, Lai Q, Shao Z. Proposal for transfer of Oceanibulbus indolifex Wagner-Dobler et al. 2004 to the genus Sulfitobacter as Sulfitobacter indolifex comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2328-2331.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3689-3691.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Oceanibulbus indolifex Wagner-Döbler et al. 2004	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hördt et al. (2020). Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

Parent taxon: Sulfitobacter Sorokin 1996

Assigned by: Liu Y, Lai Q, Shao Z. Proposal for transfer of Oceanibulbus indolifex Wagner-Dobler et al. 2004 to the genus Sulfitobacter as Sulfitobacter indolifex comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2328-2331.

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