Genus Rubritalea

Name: Rubritalea Scheuermayer et al. 2006

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Ru.bri.ta’le.a. L. adj. ruber -bra -brum, red; L. fem. n. talea, a rod, staff; N.L. fem. n. Rubritalea, a red-coloured rod

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Rubritale-), ru-bri-TA-le-a

Type species: Rubritalea marina Scheuermayer et al. 2006

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Scheuermayer M, Gulder TA, Bringmann G, Hentschel U. Rubritalea marina gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine representative of the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia', isolated from a sponge (Porifera). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2119-2124. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2725-2726.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Song et al. 2018 Song J, Lim Y, Joung Y, Cho JC, Kogure K. Rubritalea profundi sp. nov., isolated from deep-seawater and emended description of the genus Rubritalea in the phylum Verrucomicrobia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1384-1389. 🇰🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2134-2136.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Rubritaleaceae Hedlund 2012. Publication: Hedlund BP. Family III. Rubritaleaceae fam. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 812. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the family Rubritaleaceae Hedlund 2012. Publication: Hedlund BP. Family III. Rubritaleaceae fam. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 812. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Rubritaea".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Yoon et al. (2008). 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: KCTC: 5; MBIC: 4; NBRC: 3; DSM: 2; CIP: 1.
  • 🧍 Strict application of the Rule 27(3) of the Bacteriological Code (1990 Revision) would mean that the name Rubritalea Scheuermayer et al. 2006 is not validly published because the type species of the genus is not cited in the paper by Scheuermayer et al. 2006. However, the genus when originally published included only one species, Rubritalea marina, which must be the type species [Rule 20(c)]. Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Christensen H, Goker M, Manaia CM, Moore ERB. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2025 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:6979. 🇮🇱

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
    Rubritalea halochordaticola Yoon et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rubritalea marina Scheuermayer et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rubritalea profundi Song et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rubritalea sabuli Yoon et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rubritalea spongiae Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rubritalea squalenifaciens Kasai et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Rubritalea tangerina Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Verrucomicrobiaceae Ward-Rainey et al. 1996

Assigned by: Yoon J, Matsuo Y, Matsuda S, Adachi K, Kasai H, Yokota A. Rubritalea spongiae sp. nov. and Rubritalea tangerina sp. nov., two carotenoid- and squalene-producing marine bacteria of the family Verrucomicrobiaceae within the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia', isolated from marine animals. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2337-2343. 🇯🇵

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