Caryophanaceae

Caryophanaceae
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Bacillota
Class:
Bacilli
Order:
Caryophanales
Family:
Caryophanaceae

Peshkoff, 1939
Genera

The Caryophanaceae is a family of Gram-positive bacteria. In 2020, the now defunct family Planococcaceae was merged into Caryophanaceae to rectify a nomenclature anomaly. The type genus of this family is Caryophanon.

The family Planococcacae was validly published in 1949, however it contained within it another family level taxonomic rank, the family Caryophanaceae, which was validly published in 1939. According to the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP), the name Caryophanacaeae has higher priority than Planococcaceae because of its earlier publication. Therefore, the emended family retained the name Caryophanaceae.

The name Caryophanaceae is derived from the Latin term Caryophanon, referring the type genus of the family and the suffix "-aceae", an ending used to denote a family. Together, Caryophanaceae refers to a family whose nomenclatural type is the genus Caryophanon.

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