Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5053

Name

Saccharococcus Nystrand 1984

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	Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Saccharococcus thermophilus Nystrand 1984
species	Saccharococcus caldoxylosilyticus Ahmad et al. 2000

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 Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
order Bacillales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Saccharococcus Nystrand 1984

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 Saccharococcus Nystrand 1984. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5053.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5053.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 23, 2009.

References

Nystrand R. Saccharococcus thermophilus gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from beet sugar extraction. Syst Appl Microbiol 1984; 5:204-219.
Logan NA, De Vos P. Family I. Bacillaceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity G, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, Schleifer KH, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 3, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2009, p. 20.
Ahmad S, Scopes RK, Rees GN, Patel BK. Saccharococcus caldoxylosilyticus sp. nov., an obligately thermophilic, xylose-utilizing, endospore-forming bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:517-523. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-2-517 [PubMed].