Belongs within: Oceanospirillales.
The Moraxellaceae are a family of Gram-negative bacteria united by molecular data, including the animal-pathogenic Moraxella species and the cold-tolerant Psychrobacter species.
<==Moraxellaceae |--MoraxellaYH03 | |--M. bovisO92 | |--M. catarrhalis [=Branhamella catarrhalis]Z92 | |--M. caviae [=Branhamella caviae]Z92 | |--M. lacunataYH03 | `--M. osloensisVM03 `--PsychrobacterYH03 |--P. frigidicolaYH03 `--+--+--P. faecalisYH03 | `--+--P. marincolaYH03 | `--P. submarinusYH03 `--+--P. phenylpyruvicusYH03 `--+--+--P. pacifiensisYH03 | `--P. proteolyticusYH03 `--+--P. urativoransYH03 `--+--P. okhotskensis Yumoto, Hirota et al. 2003YH03 `--+--P. glacincolaYH03 `--P. immobilisYH03
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[O92] Orndorff, P. E. 1992. Bacterial virulence. In: Balows, A., H. G. Trüper, M. Dworkin, W. Harder & K.-H. Schleifer (eds) The Prokaryotes: A handbook on the biology of bacteria: Ecophysiology, isolation, identification, applications 2nd ed. vol. 1 pp. 640–658. Springer-Verlag: New York.
[VM03] Vela, A. I., A. Mateos, M. D. Collins, V. briones, R. A. Hutson, L. Domínguez & J. F. Fernández-Garayzábal. 2003. Corynebacterium suicordis sp. nov., from pigs. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 2027–2031.
[YH03] Yumoto, I., K. Hirota, Y. Sogabe, Y. Nodasaka, Y. Yokota & T. Hoshino. 2003. Psychrobacter okhotskensis sp. nov., a lipase-producing facultative psychrophile isolated from the coast of the Okhotsk Sea. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1985–1989.
[Z92] Zumpft, W. G. 1992. The denitrifying prokaryotes. In: Balows, A., H. G. Trüper, M. Dworkin, W. Harder & K.-H. Schleifer (eds) The Prokaryotes: A handbook on the biology of bacteria: Ecophysiology, isolation, identification, applications 2nd ed. vol. 1 pp. 554–582. Springer-Verlag: New York.