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Genus Planopolyspora
Name: Planopolyspora Petrolini et al. 1993
Etymology: Pla.no.po.ly’spo.ra. Gr. masc. n. planos, wanderer; Gr. masc. adj. polys, many; Gr. fem. n. spora, a seed; N.L. fem. n. Planopolyspora, a motile, multispored organism
Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Planopolyspor-), pla-no-po-LY-spo-ra
Type species: Planopolyspora crispa Petrolini et al. 1993
Effective publication: Petrolini B, Quaroni S, Saracchi M, Sardi P. A new genus of the maduromycetes: Planopolyspora gen. nov. Actinomycetes 1993; 4:8-16.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Validation list no. 47. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:864-865. 
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Correct name: Catenuloplanes Yokota et al. 1993
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind Catenuloplanes Yokota et al. 1993 heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
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Notes:
- 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Streptosporangiaceae Goodfellow et al. 1990. 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. 🇺🇸
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🚂 For the type species of this genus another name is in use, which is affiliated with the genus Catenuloplanes Yokota et al. 1993.
Publication:
Kudo T, Nakajima Y, Suzuki K. Catenuloplanes crispus (Petrolini et al. 1993) comb. nov.: incorporation of the genus Planopolyspora Petrolini 1993 into the genus Catenuloplanes Yokota et al. 1993 with an amended description of the genus Catenuloplanes. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1853-1860.
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- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Planopofyspora".
- ❗ Planopolyspora is the correct name instead if this genus is regarded as a separate genus (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another genus whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 1; ATCC: 1; JCM: 1; IFO: 1; VKM: 1; DSM: 1.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Planopolyspora crispa Petrolini et al. 1993 validly published under the ICNP synonym
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Parent taxon: Micromonosporaceae Krassilnikov 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. 🇩🇪
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Record number: 516351
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