Name: Melitea Urios et al. 2008

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

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, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Melite-), me-LI-te-a

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

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Spongiibacter Graeber et al. 2008

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Neomelitea Deshmukh and Oren 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Spongiibacter Graeber et al. 2008	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Urios et al. (2008) assigned this genus to the family Alteromonadaceae Ivanova and Mikhailov 2001. 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. 🇫🇷
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Spongiibacter Graeber et al. 2008. Publication: Graeber I, Kaesler I, Borchert MS, Dieckmann R, Pape T, Lurz R, Nielsen P, von Dohren H, Michaelis W, Szewzyk U. Spongiibacter marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic marine bacterium isolated from the boreal sponge Haliclona sp. 1. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:585-590. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Meliea".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CIP: 1; DSM: 1; MOLA: 1.
  • 💥 This name is a homonym of Melitea Lamouroux, 1812 (zoological) [from Catalogue of Life].
  • 🧍 Later homonym of Melitea Péron and Lesueur 1810 (Scyphozoa, Cnidaria) and Melitea Lamouroux 1812 (Anthozoa, Cnidaria). The type species of the genus Melitea, Melitea salexigens, may be regarded as a later heterotypic synonym of Spongiibacter marinus Graeber et al. 2008 (IJSEM 61:2898/2899). Publication: Deshmukh UB, Oren A. Proposal of Christiangramia gen. nov., Neomelitea gen. nov. and Nicoliella gen. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic generic names Gramella Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005, Melitea Urios et al. 2008 and Nicolia Oliphant et al. 2022, respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5806. 🇮🇱

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    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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