Name: Martelella Rivas et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Mar.te.lel’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Martelella, in honour of the French explorer E. Martel, who, in 1896, discovered Lake Martel inside the caves of Drach in Mallorca, the site where the micro-organism was isolated

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Martelell-), mar-te-LEL-la

Type species: Martelella mediterranea Rivas et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Rivas R, Sanchez-Marquez S, Mateos PF, Martinez-Molina E, Velazquez E. Martelella mediterranea gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alpha-proteobacterium isolated from a subterranean saline lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:955-959.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1399-1402.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Kim et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the family "Aurantimonadaceae" Garrity et al. 2003. Publication: Kim MS, Hoa KT, Baik KS, Park SC, Seong CN. Aurantimonas frigidaquae sp. nov., isolated from a water-cooling system. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1142-1146.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Martellea"; "Martellela".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Chung et al. (2016). 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.00073 (N = 32).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 7; KCTC: 4; KACC: 4; LMG: 3; DSM: 3; KCCM: 2; CECT: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 9
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 10

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Martelella alba" Li et al. 2021	not validly published	synonym
    Martelella caricis Lee 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Martelella endophytica Bibi et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Martelella limonii Chung et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Martelella lutilitoris Kim and Lee 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Martelella mangrovi Zhang and Margesin 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Martelella mediterranea Rivas et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Martelella radicis Zhang and Margesin 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Martelella soudanensis Lee et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Martelella suaedae Chung et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Rhizobiaceae Conn 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468.

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