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; M.L. fem. 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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Planctobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • Krieg et al. (2010) assigned the class "Planctomycetia" Ward 2010 to this phylum. Publication: Thrash JC, Coates JD. Class I. Acidobacteriia Cavalier-Smith 2002, 12 VP emend. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 4 (The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes), Springer, New York, 2010, p. 727.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Plactomycetes"; "Plancomycetes"; "Planctomyetes"; "Planktomycetes"; "Plantomycetes".
  • 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: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 3

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Phycisphaerae Fukunaga et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
    "Planctomycetacia" Garrity and Holt 2001	not validly published
    [Planctomycetes, not assigned to class]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis

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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