Etymology:
Ma.ri.no.coc.cus. L. masc. adj.marinus, marine; N.L. masc. n.coccus, a grain or berry; from Gr. masc. n.kokkos, grain; N.L. masc. n.Marinococcus, marine coccus
Effective publication:
Hao MV, Kocur M, Komagata K. Marinococcus gen. nov., a new genus for motile cocci with meso-diaminopimelic acid in the cell wall; and Marinococcus albus sp. nov. and Marinococcus halophilus (Novitsky and Kushner) comb. nov. J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 1984; 30:449-459.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Validation list no. 19. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1985; 35:535.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status:
correct name
Risk group:
1
Emendations:
Wang et al. 2009
Wang Y, Cao LL, Tang SK, Lou K, Mao PH, Jin X, Jiang CL, Xu LH, Li WJ. Marinococcus luteus sp. nov., a halotolerant bacterium isolated from a salt lake, and emended description of the genus Marinococcus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2875-2879.
Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:269-270. Notes:
⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
Notes:
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Marinococcaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024.Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Sporolactobacillaceae".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.
🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Marinococcaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024.Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Planococcus Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Novitsky TJ, Kushner DJ. Planococcus halophilus sp. nov. a facultatively halophilic coccus. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1976; 26:53-57.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Marinoeoeeus"; "Marznococcus"; "Mnrinococcits"; "Murinococcus".
💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Wang et al. (2009). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 6; LMG: 4; CCM: 3; JCM: 3; ATCC: 3; KCTC: 3; CIP: 3; VKM: 2; NBRC: 2; CGMCC: 1.
😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1".
🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "MNCO" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer.Publication:
Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7 Total number of child taxa: 7
Assigned by:
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.
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