Name: Granulicatella Collins and Lawson 2000

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gra.nu.li.ca.tel’la. L. neut. dim. n. granulum, small grain; L. fem. dim. n. catella, small chain; N.L. fem. dim. n. Granulicatella, small chain of small grains

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Granulicatell-), gra-nu-li-ka-TEL-la

Type species: Granulicatella adiacens corrig. (Bouvet et al. 1989) Collins and Lawson 2000

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Collins MD, Lawson PA. The genus Abiotrophia (Kawamura et al.) is not monophyletic: proposal of Granulicatella gen. nov., Granulicatella adiacens comb. nov., Granulicatella elegans comb. nov. and Granulicatella balaenopterae comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:365-369. 🇬🇧

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:425-426.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Abiotrophia Kawamura et al. 1995. Publication: Kawamura Y, Hou XG, Sultana F, Liu S, Yamamoto H, Ezaki T. Transfer of Streptococcus adjacens and Streptococcus defectivus to Abiotrophia gen. nov. as Abiotrophia adiacens comb. nov. and Abiotrophia defectiva comb. nov., respectively. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:798-803. 🇯🇵
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Streptococcus Rosenbach 1884 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Bouvet A, Grimont F, Grimont PAD. Streptococcus defectivus sp. nov. and Streptococcus adjacens sp. nov., nutritionally variant streptococci from human clinical specimens. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1989; 39:290-294. 🇫🇷
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Granulicetella".
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.01260 (N = 4).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CCUG: 5; DSM: 3; ATCC: 3; CIP: 3; KCTC: 1; B: 1; LMG: 1; JCM: 1; NCTC: 1.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Taiwan has been imported on 2024-11-03. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "P650 = v". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 4
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 4
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Granulicatella adiacens corrig. (Bouvet et al. 1989) Collins and Lawson 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Granulicatella balaenopterae (Lawson et al. 1999) Collins and Lawson 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Granulicatella elegans (Roggenkamp et al. 1999) Collins and Lawson 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Granulicatella gullae" Gilroy et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
    "Granulicatella paraadiacens" (Kanamoto et al. 2000) Renz et al. 2016	not validly published	preferred name
    Granulicatella seriolae Lee et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Carnobacteriaceae Ludwig et al. 2010

Assigned by: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648. 🇩🇪

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