Name: Porticoccus Oh et al. 2010
Etymology: Por.ti.coc.cus. L. gen. masc. n. portus, a harbour, haven, port; N.L. masc. n. coccus, a coccus; from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, grain, seed; N.L. masc. n. Porticoccus, a coccus isolated from a harbour
Gender: masculine (stem: Porticocc-)
Type species: Porticoccus litoralis Oh et al. 2010
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication: Oh HM, Kim H, Kim KM, Min GS, Cho JC. Porticoccus litoralis gen. nov., sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium isolated from the Yellow Sea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:727-732.
IJSEM list: 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.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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: 2
Name | Nomenclatural status | Taxonomic status |
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"Porticoccus hydrocarbonoclasticus" Gutierrez et al. 2012 | not validly published | preferred name (not correct name) |
Porticoccus litoralis Oh et al. 2010 | validly published under the ICNP | correct name |
Parent taxon: Porticoccaceae Spring et al. 2015
Assigned by: Spring S, Scheuner C, Goker M, Klenk HP. A taxonomic framework for emerging groups of ecologically important marine gammaproteobacteria based on the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships using genome-scale data. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:281.
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