“…The genus Pontibacter belongs to the family Cytophagaceae , phylum Bacteroidetes , and was described by Nedashkovskaya et al (2005). At the time of writing, 10 species with validly published names have been described: Pontibacter actiniarum (type species; Nedashkovskaya et al , 2005), P. roseus (Suresh et al , 2006; Wang et al , 2010), P. akesuensis (Zhou et al , 2007), P. korlensis (Zhang et al , 2008), P. niistensis (Dastager et al , 2010), P. xinjiangensis (Wang et al , 2010), P. populi (Xu et al , 2012), P. lucknowensis (Dwivedi et al , 2013), P. saemangeumensis (Kang et al , 2013) and P. ramchanderi (Singh et al , 2013). An additional species, ‘ Pontibacter salisaro ’, was described by Joung et al (2011), but this name has not been validly published.…”