stigmatella (bacterium) stigmatella (bacterium) stigmatella is a bacterium genus in the phylum myxococcota. stigmatella scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: myxococcota class: myxococcia order: myxococcales family: myxococcaceae genus: stigmatellaberkeley and curtis 1875 type species stigmatella aurantiacaberkeley & curtis 1857 ex berkeley & curtis 1875 species s. aurantiaca s. erecta s. hybrida 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. species the genus contains three species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely 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.) phylogeny the currently accepted taxonomy is based on the list of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature (lpsn) and national center for biotechnology information (ncbi) 16s rrna based ltp_01_2022 120 marker proteins based gtdb 07-rs207 s. hybrida s. aurantiaca s. erecta s. aurantiaca s. erecta