Stigmatella (bacterium)

Stigmatella is a bacterium genus in the phylum Myxococcota.^[2]

Stigmatella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Myxococcota
Class:	Myxococcia
Order:	Myxococcales
Family:	Myxococcaceae
Genus:	Stigmatella Berkeley and Curtis 1875[1]
Type species
Stigmatella aurantiaca Berkeley & Curtis 1857 ex Berkeley & Curtis 1875
Species
"S. ashevillena" S. aurantiaca S. erecta S. hybrida "S. koreensis"
Synonyms
"Podangium" Jahn 1924 "Polycephalum" Kalchbrenner & Cooke 1880

Etymology

The name Stigmatella derives from:
Latin neuter gender noun stigma -atis, brand, mark; Latin feminine gender dim. ending -ella; Neo-Latin feminine gender noun Stigmatella, small dark spot.^[3]

Species

The genus contains three species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely^[3]

• S. aurantiaca Berkeley and Curtis 1875 ((Type species of the genus).; Neo-Latin feminine gender adjective aurantiaca, orange colored.)
• S. erecta (Schroeter 1886) McCurdy 1971 (Latin feminine gender participle adjective erecta (from Latin v. erigo), erected, raised.)
• S. hybrida Reichenbach 2007 (Latin feminine gender adjective hybrida, half-breed, bastard.)^[4]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[3] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)^[5]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[6][7][8]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[9][10][11]
Stigmatella S. aurantiaca Berkeley & Curtis 1857 ex Berkeley & Curtis 1875 S. erecta (Schroeter 1886) McCurdy 1971 S. hybrida Reichenbach 2007	Stigmatella "S. ashevillena" Ahearne et al. 2023 S. aurantiaca S. erecta

See also

• Bacterial taxonomy
• Microbiology
• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera