Genus Telluria

Name: Telluria Bowman et al. 1993

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Tel.lu’ri.a. L. fem. n. tellus (gen. telluris), the ground, land, earth and also a Roman goddess of the earth (Tellus); N.L. fem. n. Telluria, a bacterium isolated from the earth

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Telluri-), tel-LU-ri-a

Type species: Telluria mixta (Bowman et al. 1989) Bowman et al. 1993

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bowman JP, Sly LI, Hayward AC, Spiegel Y, Stackebrandt E. Telluria mixta (Pseudomonas mixta Bowman, Sly, and Hayward 1988) gen. nov., comb. nov., and Telluria chitinolytica sp. nov., soil-dwelling organisms which actively degrade polysaccharides. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:120-124. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 43, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:399.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Bowman 2023 Bowman JP. Genome-wide and constrained ordination-based analyses of EC code data support reclassification of the species of Massilia La Scola et al. 2000 into Telluria Bowman et al. 1993, Mokoshia gen. nov. and Zemynaea gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5991. 🇦🇺 Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 73, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6094.
    Notes:
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 1 species from the genus.
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 35 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Pseudomonas Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Bowman JP, Sly LI, Hayward AC. Pseudomonas mixta sp. nov., a bacterium from soil with degradative activity on a variety of complex polysaccharides. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1988; 11:53-69. 🇦🇺
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Tellurcll".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Mousavi SA, Young JPW. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Rhizobia and Agrobacteria: minutes of the 2024 closed annual meeting. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6680. 🇫🇮
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Weon et al. (2010), Altankhuu and Kim (2017), Kaempfer et al. (2012). 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: DSM: 21; KACC: 14; JCM: 10; CCUG: 9; KEMB: 6; CCTCC: 6; LMG: 5; KCTC: 5; CCM: 5; CIP: 3.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 38
Total number of child taxa: 38

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Telluria aerilata (Weon et al. 2008) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria agilis (Altankhuu and Kim 2017) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria agri (Chaudhary and Kim 2017) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria alkalitolerans (Xu et al. 2005) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria antibiotica Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Telluria arenae (Zhang et al. 2020) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria aromaticivorans Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Telluria arvi (Singh et al. 2015) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria aurea (Gallego et al. 2006) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria beijingensis Gu et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Telluria brevitalea (Zul et al. 2008) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria cellulosilytica Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria chitinolytica Bowman et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Telluria chloroacetimidivorans (Lee et al. 2017) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria consociata (Kämpfer et al. 2011) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria forsythiae (Heo et al. 2022) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria haematophila (Kämpfer et al. 2008) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria horti (Peta et al. 2021) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria jejuensis (Weon et al. 2010) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria kyonggiensis (Kim 2014) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria mixta (Bowman et al. 1989) Bowman et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Telluria neuiana (Zhao et al. 2017) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria niabensis (Weon et al. 2009) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria niastensis (Weon et al. 2009) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria norwichensis (Orthová et al. 2015) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria oculi (Kämpfer et al. 2012) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria phosphatilytica (Zheng et al. 2017) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria pinisoli (Altankhuu and Kim 2016) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria puerhi (Yang et al. 2021) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria putida (Feng et al. 2016) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria rhizosphaerae (Li et al. 2021) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria solisilvae (Altankhuu and Kim 2017) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria suwonensis (Weon et al. 2010) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria terrae (Altankhuu and Kim 2017) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria tieshanensis (Du et al. 2012) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria timonae (La Scola et al. 2000) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria varians (Kämpfer et al. 2008) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Telluria yuzhufengensis (Shen et al. 2013) Bowman 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Oxalobacteraceae Garrity et al. 2006

Assigned by: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn T. Family II. Oxalobacteraceae fam. 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. 623. 🇺🇸

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