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. masc. pl. n. Planctomycetes, phylum of Planctomycetales (nominative plural of Planctomycetes)

Gender: masculine

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

Correct name: Planctomycetota Garrity and Holt 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Planctomycetaeota" Oren et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    Planctomycetota Garrity and Holt 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Planctobacteria" (Cavalier-Smith 1987) Cavalier-Smith 2002	heterotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Planctomycetota" Whitman et al. 2018	heterotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • Battistuzzi and Hedges (2009) assigned this phylum to the superphylum "Hydrobacteria" Battistuzzi and Hedges 2009. Publication: Battistuzzi FU, Hedges SB. A major clade of prokaryotes with ancient adaptations to life on land. Mol Biol Evol 2009; 26:335-343.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990. 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.
  • Luketa (2012) assigned this phylum to the kingdom "Hydrobacterida" Luketa 2012. Publication: Luketa S. New views on the megaclassification of life. Protistology 2012; 7:218-237.
  • 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.
  • Fuerst (2013) assigned the class "Candidatus Brocadiae" Jenkins and Staley 2013 to this phylum. Publication: Jenkins C, Staley JT. Chapter 1. History, Classification and Cultivation of the Planctomycetes. In: Fuerst JA (eds), Planctomycetes: Cell Structure, Origins and Biology, Humana Press (Springer), Totowa, 2013, p. 1-38.
  • Fukunaga et al. (2009) assigned the class Phycisphaerae Fukunaga et al. 2010 to this phylum. Publication: Fukunaga Y, Kurahashi M, Sakiyama Y, Ohuchi M, Yokota A, Harayama S. Phycisphaera mikurensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a marine alga, and proposal of Phycisphaeraceae fam. nov., Phycisphaerales ord. nov. and Phycisphaerae classis nov. in the phylum Planctomycetes. J Gen Appl Microbiol 2009; 55:267-275.
  • Jetten et al. (2010) assigned the genus "Candidatus Anammoxiglobus" corrig. Kartal et al. 2007 to this phylum. Publication: Jetten MSM, Op den Camp HJM, Kuenen JG, Strous M. “Candidatus Brocadiaceae” fam. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes, 4, 2nd ed., Springer, New York, 2010, p. 918-925.
  • 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.
  • Khramenkov et al. (2013) assigned the genus "Candidatus Anammoximicrobium" Khramenkov et al. 2013 to this phylum. Publication: Khramenkov SV, Kozlov MN, Krevbona MV, Drofeev AG, Kazakova EA, Grachev VA, Kuznetsov BB, Poliakov DIu, Nikolaev IuA. [A novel bacterium carrying out anaerobic ammonium oxidation in a reactor for biological treatment of the filtrate of wastewater fermented residue]. Mikrobiologiia 2013; 82:625-634.
  • 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.
  • Krieg et al. (2010) assigned the class Planctomycetia Ward 2020 to this phylum. Publication: Paster BJ. Class I. Spirochaetia class. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes, vol. 4, 2nd ed., Springer, New York, 2010, p. 471-563.
  • Lodha et al. (2021) assigned the class "Candidatus Uabimicrobiia" 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.
  • Lodha et al. (2021) assigned the family "Candidatus Scalinduaceae" 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.
  • 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.

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