Name: Runella Larkin and Williams 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: English n. rune, a runic letter (an ancient alphabet); L. fem. dim. n. suff. -ella, diminutive ending; N.L. fem. dim. n. Runella, intended to mean that which resembles figures of the runic alphabet

Gender: feminine (stem: Runell-)

Type species: Runella slithyformis Larkin and Williams 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Larkin JM, Williams PM. Runella slithyformis gen. nov., sp. nov. a curved, nonflexible, pink bacterium. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:32-36.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Flexibacteraceae" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🧕 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the family Cytophagaceae Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Euzéby J, Whitman WB. Phylum XIV. Bacteroidetes phyl. 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. 25.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Runalla"; "Runetla".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Lu et al. (2007), Park et al. (2023). 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; DSM: 4; NBRC: 2; ATCC: 2; CECT: 1; TBRC: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "RUNL" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

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: 9

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Runella aurantiaca Yang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Runella defluvii Lu et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Runella limosa Ryu et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Runella palustris Kim et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Runella rosea Baek et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Runella salmonicolor Park et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Runella slithyformis Larkin and Williams 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Runella soli Chhetri et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Runella zeae Chelius et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Spirosomataceae corrig. Larkin and Borrall 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

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