Name: "Planctomycetes" Garrity and Holt 2001

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: Planc.to.my.ce’tes. N.L. fem. pl. n. Planctomycetales, type order of the phylum, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. neut. pl. n. Planctomycetes, phylum of Planctomycetales

Original 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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

• Notes:
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned the class "Planctomycetacia" Garrity and Holt 2001 to this phylum. 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.
  • Fuchsman et al. (2012) assigned the genus "Candidatus Scalindua" Jetten et al. 2003 to this phylum. Publication: Fuchsman CA, Staley JT, Oakley BB, Kirkpatrick JB, Murray JW. Free-living and aggregate-associated Planctomycetes in the Black Sea. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2012; 80:402-416.
  • Kartal et al. (2007) assigned the genus "Candidatus Anammoxoglobus" Kartal et al. 2007 to this phylum. Publication: Kartal B, Rattray J, van Niftrik LA, van de Vossenberg J, Schmid MC, Webb RI, Schouten S, Fuerst JA, Damste JS, Jetten MS, et al. Candidatus "Anammoxoglobus propionicus" a new propionate oxidizing species of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria. Syst Appl Microbiol 2007; 30:39-49.
  • Kovaleva et al. (2015) assigned the order "Candidatus Brocadiales" Jetten et al. 2010 to this phylum. Publication: Kovaleva OL, Merkel AY, Novikov AA, Baslerov RV, Toshchakov SV, Bonch-Osmolovskaya EA. Tepidisphaera mucosa gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic member of the class Phycisphaerae in the phylum Planctomycetes, and proposal of a new family, Tepidisphaeraceae fam. nov., and a new order, Tepidisphaerales ord. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:549-555.
  • Lodha et al. (2021) assigned the order "Candidatus Uabimicrobiales" Lodha et al. 2021 to this phylum. Publication: Lodha T, Narvekar S, Karodi P. Classification of uncultivated anammox bacteria and Candidatus Uabimicrobium into new classes and provisional nomenclature as Candidatus Brocadiia classis nov. and Candidatus Uabimicrobiia classis nov. of the phylum Planctomycetes and novel family Candidatus Scalinduaceae fam. nov to accommodate the genus Candidatus Scalindua. Syst Appl Microbiol 2021; 44:126272.
  • Shiratori et al. (2019) assigned the genus "Candidatus Uabimicrobium" corrig. Shiratori et al. 2019 to this phylum. Publication: Shiratori T, Suzuki S, Kakizawa Y, Ishida KI. Phagocytosis-like cell engulfment by a planctomycete bacterium. Nat Commun 2019; 10:5529.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Plactomycetes"; "Planclomycetes"; "Plancomycetes"; "Plancromycetes"; "Planctomicetes"; "Planctomyates"; "Planctomyceles"; "Planctomycetae"; "Planctomyctetes"; "Planctomyetes"; "Planktomycetes"; "Plantomycetes"; "Ptanctornycetes".
  • This taxon name is occasionally used in singular form as: "Planctomycete".
  • A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
  • The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • Planctomyces bekefii is the first representative of the phylum Planctomycetes and is a rare example of as-yet-uncultivated prokaryotes with validly published names and unknown identity. Dedysh et al. (2020) report the results of a molecular identification of this elusive bacterium, which was detected in a eutrophic boreal lake in Northern Russia. Publication: Dedysh SN, Henke P, Ivanova AA, Kulichevskaya IS, Philippov DA, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Goker M, Huang S, Overmann J. 100-year-old enigma solved: identification, genomic characterization and biogeography of the yet uncultured Planctomyces bekefii. Environ Microbiol 2020; 22:198-211.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Candidatus Brocadiae" Jenkins and Staley 2013	not validly published
    Phycisphaerae Fukunaga et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    [Planctomycetes, not assigned to class]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis
    Planctomycetia Ward 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Uabimicrobiia" Lodha et al. 2021	not validly published

Parent taxon: "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990

Assigned by: 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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