Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4207

Name

Helcococcus Collins et al. 1993

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Peptoniphilaceae Johnson et al. 2014

Members

species	Helcococcus kunzii Collins et al. 1993
species	Helcococcus ovis Collins et al. 1999
species	Helcococcus sueciensis Collins et al. 2004

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Clostridiales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Peptoniphilaceae Johnson et al. 2014
genus Helcococcus Collins et al. 1993

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 genus Helcococcus Collins et al. 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4207.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4207.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 12, 2009.

References

Johnson CN, Whitehead TR, Cotta MA, Rhoades RE, Lawson PA. Peptoniphilus stercorisuis sp. nov., isolated from a swine manure storage tank and description of Peptoniphilaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3538-3545. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.058941-0 [PubMed].
Collins MD, Falsen E, Foster G, Monasterio LR, Dominguez L, Fernandez-Garazabal JF. Helcococcus ovis sp. nov., a gram-positive organism from sheep. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1429-1432. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-4-1429 [PubMed].
Collins MD, Facklam RR, Rodrigues UM, Ruoff KL. Phylogenetic analysis of some Aerococcus-like organisms from clinical sources: description of Helcococcus kunzii gen. nov., sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:425-429. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-43-3-425 [PubMed].
Alauzet C, Marchandin H, Courtin P, Mory F, Lemée L, Pons J-L, Chapot-Chartier M-P, Lozniewski A, Jumas-Bilak E. Multilocus analysis reveals diversity in the genus Tissierella: Description of Tissierella carlieri sp. nov. in the new class Tissierellia classis nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2014; 37:23-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2013.09.007 [PubMed].
Collins MD, Falsen E, Brownlee K, Lawson PA. Helcococcus sueciensis sp. nov., isolated from a human wound. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1557-1560. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63077-0 [PubMed].