Name: Pistricoccus Xu et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pis.tri.coc’cus. L. fem. n. pistris, a sea monster, a shark; N.L. masc. n. coccus, a berry; from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, grain; N.L. masc. n. Pistricoccus, a coccus from a shark

Gender: masculine (stem: Pistricocc-)

Type species: Pistricoccus aurantiacus Xu et al. 2017

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Xu ZX, Liang QY, Lu DC, Chen GJ, Du ZJ. Pistricoccus aurantiacus gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a shark. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:1593-1603.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 175. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1095-1098.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Arahal DR, Oren A, Ventosa A. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halobacteria and Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Halomonadaceae. Minutes of the joint open meeting, 11 July 2017, Valencia, Spain. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4279-4283.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 1; MCCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Pistricoccus aurantiacus Xu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Halomonadaceae Franzmann et al. 1989

Assigned by: Xu ZX, Liang QY, Lu DC, Chen GJ, Du ZJ. Pistricoccus aurantiacus gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a shark. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:1593-1603.

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Record number: 519191