Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5298

Name

Macrococcus caseolyticus (Schleifer et al. 1982) Kloos et al. 1998

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	Macrococcus Kloos et al. 1998 emend. Mašlaňová et al. 2018

Members

subspecies	Macrococcus caseolyticus caseolyticus (Schleifer et al. 1982) Mašlaňová et al. 2018
subspecies	Macrococcus caseolyticus hominis Mašlaňová et al. 2018

Type Strain

representative organism

ATCC 13548^T (=TDD 4508 =CCM 3540 =DSM 20597 =MAFF 911387 =CCUG 15606 =CIP 100755)

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
order Bacillales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Staphylococcaceae Schleifer and Bell 2010
genus Macrococcus Kloos et al. 1998 emend. Mašlaňová et al. 2018
species Macrococcus caseolyticus (Schleifer et al. 1982) Kloos et al. 1998

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.15953	JCSC5402

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Macrococcus caseolyticus (Schleifer et al. 1982) Kloos et al. 1998. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5298.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5298.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 11, 2018.

References

Kloos WE, Ballard DN, George CG, Webster JA, Hubner RJ, Ludwig W, Schleifer KH, Fiedler F, Schubert K. Delimiting the genus Staphylococcus through description of Macrococcus caseolyticus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Macrococcus equipercicus sp. nov., and Macrococcus bovicus sp. no. and Macrococcus carouselicus sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:859-877. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-48-3-859 [PubMed].
Mašlaňová I, Wertheimer Z, Sedláček I, Švec P, Indráková A, Kovařovic V, Schumann P, Spröer C, Králová S, Šedo O, Krištofová L, Vrbovská V, Füzik T, Petráš P, Zdráhal Z, Ružičková V, Doškař J, Pantuček R. Description and Comparative Genomics of Macrococcus caseolyticus subsp. hominis subsp. nov., Macrococcus goetzii sp. nov., Macrococcus epidermidis sp. nov., and Macrococcus bohemicus sp. nov., Novel Macrococci From Human Clinical Material With Virulence Potential and Suspected Uptake of Foreign DNA by Natural Transformation. Front. Microbio. 2018; 9:1178-1178. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01178 [PubMed].