Genus Vallitalea

Name: Vallitalea Lakhal et al. 2013

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Val.li.ta’le.a. L. gen. fem. n. vallis, a valley, vale; L. fem. n. talea, a rod; N.L. fem. n. Vallitalea, a rod isolated from a vale

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Vallitale-), wal-li-TA-le-a

Type species: Vallitalea guaymasensis Lakhal et al. 2013

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lakhal R, Pradel N, Postec A, Hamdi M, Ollivier B, Godfroy A, Fardeau ML. Vallitalea guaymasensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3019-3023. 🇫🇷

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3935-3936.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Abyssivirga Schouw et al. 2016	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • Sun et al. 2019 Sun YT, Zhou N, Wang BJ, Liu XD, Jiang CY, Ge X, Liu SJ. Vallitalea okinawensis sp. nov., isolated from Okinawa Trough sediment and emended description of the genus Vallitalea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:404-410. 🇨🇳 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 69, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1251-1252.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Vallitaleaceae Quéméneur et al. 2019. Publication: Quemeneur M, Erauso G, Frouin E, Zeghal E, Vandecasteele C, Ollivier B, Tamburini C, Garel M, Menez B, Postec A. Hydrostatic Pressure Helps to Cultivate an Original Anaerobic Bacterium From the Atlantis Massif Subseafloor (IODP Expedition 357): Petrocella atlantisensis gen. nov. sp. nov. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1497. 🇫🇷
  • 🧕 Lakhal et al. (2013) assigned this genus to the family Lachnospiraceae Rainey 2010. Publication: Lakhal R, Pradel N, Postec A, Hamdi M, Ollivier B, Godfroy A, Fardeau ML. Vallitalea guaymasensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:3019-3023. 🇫🇷
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Abyssivirga Schouw et al. 2016. Publication: Schouw A, Leiknes Eide T, Stokke R, Birger Pedersen R, Helene Steen I, Bodtker G. Abyssivirga alkaniphila gen. nov., sp. nov., an alkane-degrading, anaerobic bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent system, and emended descriptions of Natranaerovirga pectinivora and Natranaerovirga hydrolytica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1724-1734. 🇳🇴
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Valitalia".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Hirano et al. (2025), Ben-Aissa et al. (2014). 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: 5; NBRC: 3; JCM: 2; KCTC: 1; CGMCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 6
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Vallitalea guaymasensis Lakhal et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Vallitalea longa Hirano et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Vallitalea maricola Hirano et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Vallitalea okinawensis Sun et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Vallitalea pronyensis Ben Aissa et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Vallitalea sediminicola Hirano et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Vallitaleaceae Quéméneur et al. 2019

Assigned by: Quemeneur M, Erauso G, Frouin E, Zeghal E, Vandecasteele C, Ollivier B, Tamburini C, Garel M, Menez B, Postec A. Hydrostatic Pressure Helps to Cultivate an Original Anaerobic Bacterium From the Atlantis Massif Subseafloor (IODP Expedition 357): Petrocella atlantisensis gen. nov. sp. nov. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1497. 🇫🇷

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