Stigmatella (bacterium)

Stigmatella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Myxococcota
Class: Myxococcia
Order: Myxococcales
Family: Myxococcaceae
Genus: Stigmatella
Berkeley and Curtis 1875
Type species
Stigmatella aurantiaca
Berkeley & Curtis 1857 ex Berkeley & Curtis 1875
Species
Synonyms
  • "Podangium" Jahn 1924
  • "Polycephalum" Kalchbrenner & Cooke 1880

Stigmatella is a bacterium genus in the phylum Myxococcota.

Etymology

The name Stigmatella derives from:
Latin neuter gender noun stigma -atis, brand, mark; Latin feminine gender dim. ending -ella; Neo-Latin feminine gender noun Stigmatella, small dark spot.

Species

The genus contains three species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024 120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226
Stigmatella

S. aurantiaca Berkeley & Curtis 1857 ex Berkeley & Curtis 1875

S. erecta (Schroeter 1886) McCurdy 1971

S. hybrida Reichenbach 2007
Stigmatella

S. ashevillena Ahearne et al. 2025

S. aurantiaca

S. erecta

References

  1. ↑ "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names -- SKERMAN et al. 30 (1): 225 -- International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology". Archived from the original on 2009-09-04. Retrieved 2011-12-30.
  2. ↑ Classification of Genera SZ in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.
  3. 1 2 3 Stigmatella in LPSN; Freese, H. M.; Meier-Kolthoff, J. P.; Sardà Carbasse, J.; Afolayan, A. O.; Göker, M. (2026). "TYGS and LPSN in 2025: a Global Core Biodata Resource for genome-based classification and nomenclature of prokaryotes within DSMZ Digital Diversity". Nucleic Acids Research. 54 (D1): D884–D891. doi:10.1093/nar/gkaf1110.
  4. ↑ Euzéby, J (2007). "List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (5): 893–897. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65207-0. PMID 17473228.
  5. ↑ Schoch CL; et al. "Stigmatella". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
  6. ↑ "The LTP". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  7. ↑ "LTP_all tree in newick format". Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  8. ↑ "LTP_10_2024 Release Notes" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  9. ↑ "GTDB release 10-RS226". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  10. ↑ "bac120_r226.sp_label". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
  11. ↑ "Taxon History". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 1 May 2025.