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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.[1] The type genus of this family is Caryophanon.[2]
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.[3] According to the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP), the name Caryophanacaeae has higher priority than Planococcaceae because of its earlier publication.[3] 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.[1]