Genus Arachidicoccus

Name: Arachidicoccus Madhaiyan et al. 2015

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.ra.chi.di.coc’cus. N.L. fem. n. Arachis, botanical generic name for peanut; N.L. masc. n. coccus, a coccus; from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, a grain or berry; N.L. masc. n. Arachidicoccus, coccus associated with peanuts

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Arachidicocc-), a-ra-k^hi-di-KOK-kus

Type species: Arachidicoccus rhizosphaerae Madhaiyan et al. 2015

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Madhaiyan M, Poonguzhali S, Senthilkumar M, Pragatheswari D, Lee JS, Lee KC. Arachidicoccus rhizosphaerae gen. nov., sp. nov., a plant-growth-promoting bacterium in the family Chitinophagaceae isolated from rhizosphere soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:578-586. 🇮🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:1397-1399.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Archidicoccus".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Siddiqi et al. (2017). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KACC: 3; NBRC: 2; KCTC: 2; JCM: 1; NCIMB: 1; LMG: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Arachidicoccus ginsenosidimutans Siddiqi et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Arachidicoccus ginsenosidivorans Siddiqi et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Arachidicoccus rhizosphaerae Madhaiyan et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Arachidicoccus soli Lee et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Arachidicoccus terrestris Won et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Chitinophagaceae Kämpfer et al. 2011

Assigned by: Madhaiyan M, Poonguzhali S, Senthilkumar M, Pragatheswari D, Lee JS, Lee KC. Arachidicoccus rhizosphaerae gen. nov., sp. nov., a plant-growth-promoting bacterium in the family Chitinophagaceae isolated from rhizosphere soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:578-586. 🇮🇳

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