Name: Moritella Urakawa et al. 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Mo.ri.tel’la. N.L. fem. dim. n. Moritella, named after Richard Y. Morita to honor his work in marine microbiology

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Moritell-), mo-ri-TEL-la

Type species: Moritella marina (Baumann et al. 1984 ex Russell 1892) Urakawa et al. 1999

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Urakawa H, Kita-Tsukamoto K, Steven SE, Ohwada K, Colwell RR. A proposal to transfer Vibrio marinus (Russell 1891) to a new genus Moritella gen. nov. as Moritella marina comb. nov. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1998; 165:373-378. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 69. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:341-342.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Moritellaceae Ivanova et al. 2004. Publication: Ivanova EP, Flavier S, Christen R. Phylogenetic relationships among marine Alteromonas-like proteobacteria: emended description of the family Alteromonadaceae and proposal of Pseudoalteromonadaceae fam. nov., Colwelliaceae fam. nov., Shewanellaceae fam. nov., Moritellaceae fam. nov., Ferrimonadaceae fam. nov., Idiomarinaceae fam. nov. and Psychromonadaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1773-1788. 🇦🇺
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Alteromonadaceae Ivanova and Mikhailov 2001. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class III. Gammaproteobacteria class. nov. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part B (The Gammaproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1. 🇺🇸
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Vibrio Pacini 1854 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Baumann P, Furniss AL, Lee JV. Genus Vibrio. In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 1., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 518-538. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Morirella".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Nogi and Kato (1999). 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: JCM: 5; DSM: 3; CIP: 2; ATCC: 2; LMG: 2; NCIMB: 2; NCCB: 1; KCCM: 1; KCTC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 7

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Moritella abyssi Xu et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Moritella dasanensis Kim et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Moritella japonica Nogi et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Moritella marina (Baumann et al. 1984 ex Russell 1892) Urakawa et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Moritella profunda Xu et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Moritella viscosa (Lunder et al. 2000) Benediktsdóttir et al. 2000	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Moritella yayanosii Nogi and Kato 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Moritellaceae Ivanova et al. 2004

Assigned by: Ivanova EP, Flavier S, Christen R. Phylogenetic relationships among marine Alteromonas-like proteobacteria: emended description of the family Alteromonadaceae and proposal of Pseudoalteromonadaceae fam. nov., Colwelliaceae fam. nov., Shewanellaceae fam. nov., Moritellaceae fam. nov., Ferrimonadaceae fam. nov., Idiomarinaceae fam. nov. and Psychromonadaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1773-1788. 🇦🇺

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