Proposal of Christiangramia gen. nov., Neomelitea gen. nov. and Nicoliella gen. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic generic names Gramella Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005, Melitea Urios et al. 2008 and Nicolia Oliphant et al. 2022, respectively

Abstract

The prokaryotic generic names Gramella Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005, Melitea Urios et al. 2008 and Nicolia Oliphant et al. 2022 are illegitimate because they are later homonyms of the names Gramella Kozur 1971, a genus of fossil ostracods, Melitea Péron and Lesueur 1810 (Scyphozoa, Cnidaria), Melitea Lamouroux 1812 (Anthozoa, Cnidaria), Nicolia Unger 1842, an extinct plant genus, and Nicolia Gibson-Smith and Gibson-Smith 1979 (Bivalvia, Mollusca), respectively (Principle 2 and Rule 51b(4) of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes). For Gramella , we therefore propose the replacement generic name Christiangramia with type species Christiangramia echinicola comb. nov. and we propose the reclassification of 18 other species of Gramella in the genus Christiangramia as new combinations. In addition, we propose the replacement generic names Neomelitea with type species Neomelitea salexigens comb. nov. and Nicoliella with type species Nicoliella spurrieriana comb. nov.

Proposal of Sphingobacterium allocomposti nom. nov., Mycobacterium chelonae subsp. bovistauri nom. nov. and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. allosunkii nom. nov. as new names with replacement specific or subspecific epithets, respectively, for three illegitimate prokaryotic names Sphingobacterium composti Yoo et al. 2007, Mycobacterium chelonae subsp. bovis Kim et al. 2017 and Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. sunkii Kudo et al. 2012; proposal of Christiangramia oceanisediminis comb. nov. and Christiangrami

“…214 [18]. The nomenclatural problem for Gramella oceanisediminis Yang et al 2023 and Gramella crocea Zhang et al, 2023 was not solved in the proposal previously made by Deshmukh and Oren [16] due to temporal proximity and also no reclassification of Gramella oceanisediminis to the newly established genus Christiangramia was made later in the notification list [19] The properties of this species are those given by Yang et al for Gramella oceanisediminis [17].…”

“…As mentioned in the proposal made by Deshmukh and Oren [16], the prokaryotic generic name Gramella Nedashkovskaya et al 2005 is illegitimate for being a later homonym of the ostracod genus name Gramella Kozur 1971 and therefore a new prokaryotic generic name has been proposed for replacement, viz. Christiangramia Deshmukh and Oren 2023.…”

Judicial Opinion 130

“…Thus, according to Rule 54 the illegitimacy of Rhodococcus Zopf 1891 (Approved Lists 1980) [2,3] could be resolved by proposing new combinations for all species currently placed in the genus for which alternative validly published and legitimate names are not yet available [10]. There are several recently published examples of such replacements [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18].…”

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the taxonomy of aerobic Bacteroidota. Minutes of the online meeting 25 April 2023

“…For example, the taxonomy of the genus Chryseobacterium has been redefined using genome-based taxonomy [4] and some of its species have been assigned to the genera Epilithonomonas , Kaistella , Halpernia and Soonwooa . The name Christiangramia is the replacement for the genus Gramella owing to it already being the name for fossil ostracods, described originally in 1971 [5]. The genus Flavobacterium is remarkable in that its number of species has now swelled to more than 300.…”