Name: Georgenia Altenburger et al. 2002

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ge.or.ge’ni.a. L. neut. pl. n. suff. -ia, ending to denote a class; N.L. fem. n. Georgenia, referring to the village St Georgen in Styria, where strains 1A-CT and 3A-1 were isolated

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Georgeni-), ge-or-GE-ni-a

Type species: Georgenia muralis Altenburger et al. 2002

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Altenburger P, Kampfer P, Schumann P, Vybiral D, Lubitz W, Busse HJ. Georgenia muralis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from a medieval wall painting. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:875-881.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1077-1079.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Oceanitalea Fu et al. 2012	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Li et al. 2007 Li WJ, Xu P, Schumann P, Zhang YQ, Pukall R, Xu LH, Stackebrandt E, Jiang CL. Georgenia ruanii sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from forest soil in Yunnan (China), and emended description of the genus Georgenia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1424-1428. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2189-2190.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Hamada et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the family Bogoriellaceae Schumann and Stackebrandt 2000. Publication: Hamada M, Iino T, Tamura T, Iwami T, Harayama S, Suzuki K. Serinibacter salmoneus gen. nov., sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from the intestinal tract of a fish, and emended descriptions of the families Beutenbergiaceae and Bogoriellaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2809-2814.
  • 🧕 Zhi et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the family Beutenbergiaceae Zhi et al. 2009. Publication: Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Geogenia"; "Gorgenia".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Li et al. (2019), Ma et al. (2025), Kaempfer et al. (2016), Tang et al. (2010). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 11; CGMCC: 9; JCM: 9; NBRC: 5; KCTC: 5; SYSU: 2; CCM: 2; CCTCC: 2; MTCC: 1; MCCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 16
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 16
Total number of child taxa: 18

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Georgenia alba Li et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Georgenia daeguensis Woo et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Georgenia deserti Hozzein et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Georgenia faecalis" Wang et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name
    Georgenia halophila Tang et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Georgenia halotolerans Liu et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Georgenia muralis Altenburger et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Georgenia phoenicis" Schultz et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Georgenia ruanii Li et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Georgenia satyanarayanai Srinivas et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Georgenia sediminis You et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Georgenia soli Kämpfer et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Georgenia subflava Wang et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Georgenia sunbinii Ma et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Georgenia thermotolerans Hamada et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Georgenia wangjunii Ma et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Georgenia wutianyii Tian et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Georgenia yuyongxinii Tian et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Allobogoriellaceae Deshmukh and Oren 2025

Assigned by: Deshmukh UB, Oren A. Proposal of Allobogoriella gen. nov., Allobogoriella caseilytica comb. nov., Allostella gen. nov., Allostella humosa comb. nov. and Allostella vacuolata comb. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic names Bogoriella, Bogoriella caseilytica, Stella, Stella humosa and Stella vacuolata, respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6930.

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