diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableMapReduceUtil.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableMapReduceUtil.java
index 8d8a784595b..2701059784b 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableMapReduceUtil.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableMapReduceUtil.java
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ public class TableMapReduceUtil {
     Class prefixTreeCodecClass = null;
     try {
       prefixTreeCodecClass =
-          Class.forName("org.apache.hadoop.hbase.code.prefixtree.PrefixTreeCodec");
+          Class.forName("org.apache.hadoop.hbase.codec.prefixtree.PrefixTreeCodec");
     } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
       // this will show up in unit tests but should not show in real deployments
       LOG.warn("The hbase-prefix-tree module jar containing PrefixTreeCodec is not present." +