Name: Stieleria Kallscheuer et al. 2021

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Stie.le’ri.a. N.L. fem. n. Stieleria, named in honor of Anja Heuer, née Stieler, an extraordinary skilled German technician at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ, who played a key role in the cultivation of literally hundreds of novel planctomycetal strains

Gender, pronunciation: feminine (stem: Stieleri-), stie-LE-ri-a

Type species: Stieleria maiorica Kallscheuer et al. 2021

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Kallscheuer N, Jeske O, Sandargo B, Boedeker C, Wiegand S, Bartling P, Jogler M, Rohde M, Petersen J, Medema MH, et al. Author Correction: The planctomycete Stieleria maiorica Mal15^T employs stieleriacines to alter the species composition in marine biofilms. Commun Biol 2020; 3:531.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 197. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:1-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Kallscheuer et al. 2025 Kallscheuer N, Kumar G, Ahamad S, Duddeda S, Sasikala C, Jogler C, Ramana CV. Description of Stieleria mannarensis sp. nov., isolated from a marine sponge, and proposal to include members of the genus Roseiconus in the genus Stieleria. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2025; 118:0.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 As of 2025-07-15 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

• Notes:
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Kallscheuer et al. (2025). 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: LMG: 4; KCTC: 3; DSM: 3; NBRC: 3; CECT: 2; VKM: 1.
  • 🧍 See also Kallscheuer et al. (2020). Publication: Kallscheuer N, Jeske O, Sandargo B, Boedeker C, Wiegand S, Bartling P, Jogler M, Rohde M, Petersen J, Medema MH, et al. The planctomycete Stieleria maiorica Mal15^T employs stieleriacines to alter the species composition in marine biofilms. Commun Biol 2020; 3:303.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 8

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Stieleria lacunae" (Kumar et al. 2025) Kallscheuer et al. 2025	not validly published	synonym
    Stieleria maiorica Kallscheuer et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Stieleria mannarensis" Kallscheuer et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Stieleria neptunia Sandargo et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Stieleria nitratireducens" (Kumar et al. 2025) Kallscheuer et al. 2025	not validly published	synonym
    Stieleria sedimenti Vitorino et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stieleria tagensis Godinho et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Stieleria varia Surup et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Pirellulaceae Dedysh et al. 2020

Assigned by: Sandargo B, Jeske O, Boedeker C, Wiegand S, Wennrich JP, Kallscheuer N, Jogler M, Rohde M, Jogler C, Surup F. Stieleriacines, N-Acyl Dehydrotyrosines From the Marine Planctomycete Stieleria neptunia sp. nov. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1408.

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