planctopirus planctopirus planctopirus is a genus of bacteria from the family of planctomycetaceae planctopirus scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: planctomycetota class: planctomycetia order: planctomycetales family: planctomycetaceae genus: planctopirusscheuner et al. 2015 type species planctopirus limnophila(hirsch & muller 1986) scheuner et al. 2015 species p. ephydatiae p. hydrillae p. limnophila phylogeny the currently accepted taxonomy is based on the list of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature (lpsn) and national center for biotechnology information (ncbi) 16s rrna based ltp_01_2022 120 marker proteins based gtdb 07-rs207 p. hydrillae p. limnophila p. hydrillae yadav et al. 2018 p. ephydatiae kohn et al. 2020 p. limnophila (hirsch & muller 1986) scheuner et al. 2015