Name: Planococcus Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. n. planos, wandering; M.L. masc. n. coccus, coccus; from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, grain, seed; N.L. masc. n. Planococcus, motile coccus

Type species: Planococcus citreus Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Migula W. Über ein neues System der Bakterien. Arbeiten aus dem Bakteriologischen Institut der Technischen Hochschule zu Karlsruhe 1894; 1:235-238.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Planomicrobium Yoon et al. 2001	heterotypic synonym, validly published

• Emendations:
  • Nakagawa et al. 1996 Nakagawa Y, Sakane T, Yokota A. Emendation of the genus Planococcus and transfer of Flavobacterium okeanokoites Zobell and Upham 1944 to the genus Planococcus as Planococcus okeanokoites comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:866-870. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 46, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:243-244.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Yoon et al. 2010 Yoon JH, Kang SJ, Lee SY, Oh KH, Oh TK. Planococcus salinarum sp. nov., isolated from a marine solar saltern, and emended description of the genus Planococcus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:754-758. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1480-1481.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Planococcaceae Krassilnikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Krassilnikov NA. Opredelitelv Bakterii i Actinomicetov. Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1949.
  • De Vos et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the family Planococcaceae Krassilnikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Class I. Bacilli class nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 19-20.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 24
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 25
Total number of child taxa: 28

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Planococcus alkanoclasticus Engelhardt et al. 2001	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus antarcticus Reddy et al. 2002	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus chinensis (Dai et al. 2005) Gupta and Patel 2020	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus citreus Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus columbae Suresh et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
    "Planococcus dechangensis" Wang et al. 2015	not validly published
    Planococcus donghaensis Choi et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus faecalis Kim et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus glaciei (Zhang et al. 2009) Gupta and Patel 2020	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus halocryophilus Mykytczuk et al. 2012	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus halophilus Novitsky and Kushner 1976 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Planococcus halotolerans Gan et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus kocurii Hao and Komagata 1986	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus koreensis (Yoon et al. 2001) Gupta and Patel 2020	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus maitriensis Alam et al. 2004	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus maritimus Yoon et al. 2003	validly published	correct name
    "Planococcus massiliensis" Seck et al. 2016	not validly published
    Planococcus mcmeekinii Junge et al. 1998	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus okeanokoites (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Nakagawa et al. 1996	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus plakortidis Kaur et al. 2012	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus psychrophilus Reddy et al. 2002	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus rifietensis (sic) Romano et al. 2003	misspelling	synonym
    Planococcus rifietoensis corrig. Romano et al. 2003	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus ruber Wang et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus salinarum Yoon et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus salinus Gan et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus stackebrandtii Mayilraj et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
    Planococcus versutus See-Too et al. 2017	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Caryophanaceae Peshkoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Tindall BJ. When treated as heterotypic synonyms the names Caryophanaceae Peshkoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) and Caryophanales Peshkoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) have priority over the names Planococcaceae Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980) and Bacillales Prevot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980) and Bacillales Prevot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980), respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:2187-2195.

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