Name: Stella Vasilyeva 1985

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Stel’la. L. fem. n. Stella, a star, to denote star-shaped morphology of cells

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Stell-), STEL-la

Type species: Stella humosa Vasilyeva 1985

Valid publication: Vasilyeva LV. Stella, a new genus of soil prosthecobacteria, with proposals for Stella humosa sp. nov. and Stella vacuolata sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1985; 35:518-521. 🇷🇺

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Allostella Deshmukh and Oren 2025

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Allostella Deshmukh and Oren 2025	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Stellaceae Hördt et al. 2020. Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 🇩🇪
  • 🧕 Brenner et al. (2005) assigned this genus to the family Acetobacteraceae (ex Henrici 1939) Gillis and De Ley 1980. Publication: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Class I. Alphaproteobacteria 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 C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 1. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Hördt et al. (2020) assigned this genus to the family Stellaceae Hördt et al. 2020. Publication: Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. 🇩🇪
  • 🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Allostella Deshmukh and Oren 2025. Publication: Deshmukh UB, Oren A. Proposal of Allobogoriella gen. nov., Allobogoriella caseilytica comb. nov., Allostella gen. nov., Allostella humosa comb. nov. and Allostella vacuolata comb. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic names Bogoriella, Bogoriella caseilytica, Stella, Stella humosa and Stella vacuolata, respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6930. 🇮🇱
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Stelja".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 2; VKM: 2; DSM: 2.
  • 🧍 Later homonym of Stella Massee 1889 (basidiomycetes). According to Shipunov (2011), this name is a hemihomonym. Publication: Shipunov A. The problem of hemihomonyms and the on-line hemihomonyms database (HHDB). Bionomina 2011; 4:65-72.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "STEL" 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: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Stella humosa Vasilyeva 1985	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym
    Stella vacuolata Vasilyeva 1985	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym

Parent taxon: Allostellaceae Deshmukh and Oren 2025

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