Name: Granulicella Pankratov and Dedysh 2010

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gra.nu.li.cel’la. L. neut. dim. n. granulum, a small grain; L. fem. n. cella, a storeroom, chamber and, in biology, a cell; N.L. fem. n. Granulicella, a grain-like cell

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Granulicell-), gra-nu-li-KEL-la

Type species: Granulicella paludicola Pankratov and Dedysh 2010

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Pankratov TA, Dedysh SN. Granulicella paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., Granulicella pectinivorans sp. nov., Granulicella aggregans sp. nov. and Granulicella rosea sp. nov., acidophilic, polymer-degrading acidobacteria from Sphagnum peat bogs. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2951-2959. 🇷🇺

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:477-478.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Männistö et al. 2012 Mannisto MK, Rawat S, Starovoytov V, Haggblom MM. Granulicella arctica sp. nov., Granulicella mallensis sp. nov., Granulicella tundricola sp. nov. and Granulicella sapmiensis sp. nov., novel acidobacteria from tundra soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2097-2106. 🇫🇮 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2813-2814.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 4 new species in the genus.
  • Falagán et al. 2017 Falagan C, Foesel B, Johnson B. Acidicapsa ferrireducens sp. nov., Acidicapsa acidiphila sp. nov., and Granulicella acidiphila sp. nov.: novel acidobacteria isolated from metal-rich acidic waters. Extremophiles 2017; 21:459-469. 🇬🇧 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 27. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:7-8.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Granuicella"; "Granuricella".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Oshkin et al. (2019). 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: 12; LMG: 4; ATCC: 4; VKM: 3; NCCB: 1; NBRC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 11
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 11
Total number of child taxa: 12

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Granulicella acidiphila Falagán et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Granulicella aggregans Pankratov and Dedysh 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Granulicella arctica Männistö et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Granulicella cerasi Yamada et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Granulicella elongata" (Dedysh et al. 2012) Qiu and Cao 2025	not validly published	synonym
    Granulicella mallensis Männistö et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Granulicella paludicola Pankratov and Dedysh 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Granulicella pectinivorans Pankratov and Dedysh 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Granulicella rosea Pankratov and Dedysh 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Granulicella sapmiensis Männistö et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Granulicella sibirica Oshkin et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Granulicella tundricola Männistö et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Acidobacteriaceae Thrash and Coates 2012

Assigned by: Oshkin IY, Kulichevskaya IS, Rijpstra WIC, Sinninghe Damste JS, Rakitin AL, Ravin NV, Dedysh SN. Granulicella sibirica sp. nov., a psychrotolerant acidobacterium isolated from an organic soil layer in forested tundra, West Siberia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1195-1201. 🇷🇺

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