Name: Melitea Urios et al. 2008
Etymology: Me.li’te.a. N.L. fem. n. Melitea, named after Melite, a nymph of the sea in Greek mythology, referring to the marine origin
Gender: feminine (stem: Melite-)
Type species: Melitea salexigens Urios et al. 2008
Valid publication: Urios L, Agogue H, Intertaglia L, Lesongeur F, Lebaron P. Melitea salexigens gen. nov., sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium from the Mediterranean Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2479-2483.
IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:205-206.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
Correct name: Neomelitea Deshmukh and Oren 2023
Name | Kind |
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Neomelitea Deshmukh and Oren 2023 | homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP |
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
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Melitea salexigens Urios et al. 2008 | validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name | synonym |
Parent taxon: Spongiibacteraceae Spring et al. 2015
Assigned by: Spring S, Scheuner C, Goker M, Klenk HP. A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:281.
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Record number: 517683