Name: Pelagicoccus Yoon et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Pe.la.gi.coc.cus. L. neut. n. pelagus, the open sea, the ocean; N.L. masc. n. coccus, berry; from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, grain; N.L. masc. n. Pelagicoccus, referring to a coccoid-shaped bacterium isolated from the sea

Gender: masculine (stem: Pelagicocc-)

Type species: Pelagicoccus mobilis Yoon et al. 2007

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yoon J, Yasumoto-Hirose M, Matsuo Y, Nozawa M, Matsuda S, Kasai H, Yokota A. Pelagicoccus mobilis gen. nov., sp. nov., Pelagicoccus albus sp. nov. and Pelagicoccus litoralis sp. nov., three novel members of subdivision 4 within the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia', isolated from seawater by in situ cultivation. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1377-1385.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2189-2190.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Pelagicoccaceae Min et al. 2023. Publication: Min L, Wang W, Oren A, Lai Q, Huang Z. Coraliomargarita parva sp. nov., isolated from mangrove sediment and genome-based analysis of the class Opitutae revealed five novel families: Coraliomargaritaceae fam. nov., Pelagicoccaceae fam. nov., Cerasicoccaeae fam. nov., Oceanipulchritudinaceae fam. nov., and Alterococcaeae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1202141.
  • 🧕 Min et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Pelagicoccaceae Min et al. 2023. Publication: Min L, Wang W, Oren A, Lai Q, Huang Z. Coraliomargarita parva sp. nov., isolated from mangrove sediment and genome-based analysis of the class Opitutae revealed five novel families: Coraliomargaritaceae fam. nov., Pelagicoccaceae fam. nov., Cerasicoccaeae fam. nov., Oceanipulchritudinaceae fam. nov., and Alterococcaeae fam. nov. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1202141.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Pelagiciccus".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Yoon et al. (2007). 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: KCTC: 5; JCM: 3; NBRC: 2; MCCC: 1.

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Pelagicoccus albus Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pelagicoccus croceus Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pelagicoccus enzymogenes Feng et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pelagicoccus litoralis Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Pelagicoccus mobilis Yoon et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Puniceicoccaceae Choo et al. 2007

Assigned by: Yoon J, Oku N, Matsuda S, Kasai H, Yokota A. Pelagicoccus croceus sp. nov., a novel marine member of the family Puniceicoccaceae within the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia' isolated from seagrass. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2874-2880.

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