Stigmatella (bacterium)

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

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Stigmatella
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Stigmatella

Type species
Stigmatella aurantiaca
Berkeley & Curtis 1857 ex Berkeley & Curtis 1875
Species
Synonyms
  • "Podangium" Jahn 1924
  • "Polycephalum" Kalchbrenner & Cooke 1880
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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]

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 10-RS226[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. 2025

S. aurantiaca

S. erecta

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