Name: Sporosarcina Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Spo.ro.sar.ci’na Gr. fem. n. spora, a spore; L. fem. n. sarcina, a package, bundle; N.L. fem. n. Sporosarcina, a sporeforming package

Gender: feminine

Type species: Sporosarcina ureae (Beijerinck 1901) Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Kluyver AJ, Van Niel CB. Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene, Abteilung II 1936; 94:369-403.

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
    Filibacter Maiden and Jones 1985	heterotypic synonym, validly published

• Emendations:
  • Yoon et al. 2001 Yoon JH, Lee KC, Weiss N, Kho YH, Kang KH, Park YH. Sporosarcina aquimarina sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from seawater in Korea, and transfer of Bacillus globisporus (Larkin and Stokes 1967), Bacillus psychrophilus (Nakamura 1984) and Bacillus pasteurii (Chester 1898) to the genus Sporosarcina as Sporosarcina globispora comb. nov., Sporosarcina psychrophila comb. nov. and Sporosarcina pasteurii comb. nov., and emended description of th. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1079-1086. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1231-1233.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 4 new species in the genus.
    • The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. The usage of the term "coherent taxon" (or equivalent) is cautioned against. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details.
  • Gupta and Patel 2020 Gupta RS, Patel S. Robust Demarcation of the Family Caryophanaceae (Planococcaceae) and Its Different Genera Including Three Novel Genera Based on Phylogenomics and Highly Specific Molecular Signatures. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2821. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 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.
  • Kluyver and Van Niel (1936) assigned this genus to the tribe "Sporosarcineae". Publication: Kluyver AJ, Van Niel CB. Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene, Abteilung II 1936; 94:369-403.
  • Recommended reviewers for taxonomic proposals in this group are the corresponding authors of Reddy et al. (2013).

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 15
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 18
Total number of child taxa: 20

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Sporosarcina antarctica Yu et al. 2008	validly published	synonym
    Sporosarcina aquimarina Yoon et al. 2001	validly published	correct name
    Sporosarcina contaminans Kämpfer et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
    Sporosarcina globispora (Larkin and Stokes 1967) Yoon et al. 2001	validly published	correct name
    Sporosarcina halophila Claus et al. 1984	validly published	synonym
    Sporosarcina koreensis Kwon et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
    Sporosarcina limicola (Maiden and Jones 1985) Gupta and Patel 2020	validly published	correct name
    Sporosarcina luteola Tominaga et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
    Sporosarcina macmurdoensis Reddy et al. 2003	validly published	synonym
    Sporosarcina newyorkensis Wolfgang et al. 2012	validly published	correct name
    Sporosarcina pasteurii (Miquel 1889) Yoon et al. 2001	validly published	correct name
    Sporosarcina psychrophila (Nakamura 1984) Yoon et al. 2001	validly published	correct name
    Sporosarcina saromensis An et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
    Sporosarcina siberiensis Zhang et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Sporosarcina soli Kwon et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
    "Sporosarcina sphaerica" Gupta and Patel 2020	not validly published
    Sporosarcina terrae Sun et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Sporosarcina thermotolerans Kämpfer et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
    Sporosarcina ureae (Beijerinck 1901) Kluyver and van Niel 1936 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    "Sporosarcina ureilytica" Gupta and Patel 2020	not validly published

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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