Name: Porticoccus Oh et al. 2010

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

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, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Porticocc-), por-ti-KOK-kus

Type species: Porticoccus litoralis Oh et al. 2010

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

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

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Porticoccaceae Spring et al. 2015. Publication: 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.
  • 🧕 Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005. Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: NBRC: 1; DSM: 1; ATCC: 1; KCCM: 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: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Porticoccus hydrocarbonoclasticus" Gutiérrez et al. 2012	not validly published	preferred 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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