Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.13154

Name

Spongiibacter Graeber et al. 2008 emend. Jang et al. 2011

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Spongiibacteraceae Spring et al. 2015

Members

species	Spongiibacter marinus Graeber et al. 2008 emend. Jang et al. 2011
species	Spongiibacter borealis Jang et al. 2011
species	Spongiibacter pelagi Yoon 2022
species	Spongiibacter taiwanensis Jean et al. 2016
species	Spongiibacter thalassae Yoon 2022
species	Spongiibacter tropicus Hwang and Cho 2009

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Cellvibrionales Spring et al. 2015
family Spongiibacteraceae Spring et al. 2015
genus Spongiibacter Graeber et al. 2008 emend. Jang et al. 2011

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Spongiibacter Graeber et al. 2008 emend. Jang et al. 2011. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.13154.

Source File

10.1601/tx.13154.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 24, 2022.

References

Graeber I, Kaesler I, Borchert MS, Dieckmann R, Pape T, Lurz R, Nielsen P, von Döhren 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. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65438-0 [PubMed].
Yoon J. Spongiibacter thalassae sp. nov., a marine gammaproteobacterium isolated from seawater. Arch Microbiol 2022; 204:273-273. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-022-02888-9 [PubMed].
Jang GI, Hwang CY, Choi H-G, Kang S-H, 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. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.028795-0 [PubMed].
Yoon J. Spongiibacter pelagi sp. nov., a marine gammaproteobacterium isolated from coastal seawater. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2022; 115:487-495. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-022-01711-1 [PubMed].
Jean WD, Yeh Y-T, Huang S-P, Chen J-S, Shich WY. Spongiibacter taiwanensis sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from aged-seawater. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4094-4098. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001316 [PubMed].
Spring S, Scheuner C, Göker M, Klenk H-P. A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data. Front. Microbio. 2015; 6:281. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00281 [PubMed].
Hwang CY, Cho BC. Spongiibacter tropicus sp. nov., isolated from a Synechococcus culture. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2176-2179. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.005819-0 [PubMed].