Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3101

Name

Alterococcus agarolyticus Shieh and Jean 1999

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Alterococcus Shieh and Jean 1999

Type Strain

representative organism

CCRC 19135^T (=ADT3)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Verrucomicrobia (sic) Hedlund 2021
class Opitutae Choo et al. 2007
order Opitutales Choo et al. 2007
family Opitutaceae Choo et al. 2007 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018
genus Alterococcus Shieh and Jean 1999
species Alterococcus agarolyticus Shieh and Jean 1999

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Alterococcus agarolyticus Shieh and Jean 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3101.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3101.xml

References

Shieh WY, Jean WD. Alterococcus agarolyticus, gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic thermophilic bacterium capable of agar degradation. Can J Microbiol 1998; 44:637-645. [PubMed].