Name: "Planctomycetes" Oren et al. 2015

Category: Class

Proposed as: class. nov.

Etymology: Planc.to.my.ce’tes. N.L. masc. pl. n. Planctomycetes, the Planctomycetales class

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: plank-to-my-KE-tes, masculine

Type order: Planctomycetales Schlesner and Stackebrandt 1987

Original publication: Oren A, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, Whitman WB. Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4284-4287. 🇮🇱

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Planctomycetia Ward 2020

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Planctomycetacia" Garrity and Holt 2001	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Planctomycetia Ward 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Planctomycetia" Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Planctomycea Cavalier-Smith 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, rejected name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Planctomycetaeota" Oren et al. 2015. Publication: Oren A, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, Whitman WB. Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4284-4287. 🇮🇱
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the phylum "Planctomycetota" Whitman et al. 2018. Publication: Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Whitman et al. (2018) assigned this class to the phylum "Planctomycetota" Whitman et al. 2018. Publication: Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969. 🇺🇸
  • 🛺 The type order of this class has been placed in the class Planctomycetia Ward 2020. Publication: Krieg NR. Order I. Bacteroidales ord. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 25. 🇺🇸
  • 🚃 The type order of this class has alternatively been placed in the class "Planctomycetacia" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Phanctomycetes"; "Plactomycetes"; "Planclomycetes"; "Plancomycetes"; "Plancotomycetes"; "Plancromycetes"; "Planctomcetes"; "Planctomicetes"; "Planctomyates"; "Planctomyceles"; "Planctomycetae"; "Planctomyctetes"; "Planctomyetes"; "Planctonomycetes"; "Planktomycetes"; "Planotomycetes"; "Plantcomycetes"; "Plantctomycetes"; "Plantomycetes"; "Ptanctornycetes". — 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in singular form as: "Planctomycete".
  • 🤦 This taxon lacks a discernible description (protologue).
  • 🧍 Considered not validly published (informal proposal for replacement name). Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Christensen H, Goker M, Manaia CM, Moore ERB. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2025 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:6979. 🇮🇱
  • 🧍 The authors did not explicitly assign a nomenclatural type but since the name was proposed as replacement for Planctomycea this LPSN entry is based on the assumption that the nomenclatural type was supposed to be the same. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T. The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:7-76. 🇬🇧

Parent taxon: Planctomycetota Garrity and Holt 2021

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Oren A, Garrity GM. Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5056. 🇮🇱

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