Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5559

Name

Tetragenococcus 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	Enterococcaceae Ludwig et al. 2010

Members

species	Tetragenococcus halophilus (Mees 1934) Collins et al. 1993
species	Tetragenococcus koreensis Lee et al. 2005
species	Tetragenococcus muriaticus Satomi et al. 1997
species	Tetragenococcus osmophilus Justé et al. 2012
species	Tetragenococcus solitarius (Collins et al. 1989) Ennahar and Cai 2005

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 Lactobacillales Ludwig et al. 2010
family Enterococcaceae Ludwig et al. 2010
genus Tetragenococcus 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 Tetragenococcus Collins et al. 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5559.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5559.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 1, 2012.

References

Lee M, Kim MK, Vancanneyt M, Swings J, Kim SH, Kang MS, Lee ST. Tetragenococcus koreensis sp. nov., a novel rhamnolipid-producing bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1409-1413. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63448-0 [PubMed].
Ennahar S, Cai Y. Biochemical and genetic evidence for the transfer of Enterococcus solitarius Collins et al. 1989 to the genus Tetragenococcus as Tetragenococcus solitarius comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:589-592. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63205-0 [PubMed].
Justé A, Van Trappen S, Verreth C, Cleenwerck I, De Vos P, Lievens B, Willems KA. Characterization of Tetragenococcus strains from sugar thick juice reveals a novel species, Tetragenococcus osmophilus sp. nov., and divides Tetragenococcus halophilus into two subspecies, T. halophilus subsp. halophilus subsp. nov. and T. halophilus subsp. flandriensis subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:129-137. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.029157-0 [PubMed].
Collins MD, Williams AM, Wallbanks S. The phylogeny of Aerococcus and Pediococcus as determined by 16S rRNA sequence analysis: description of Tetragenococcus gen. nov. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1990; 70:255-262. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1990.tb14006.x [PubMed].
Satomi M, Kimura B, Mizoi M, Sato T, Fujii T. Tetragenococcus muriaticus sp. nov., a new moderately halophilic lactic acid bacterium isolated from fermented squid liver sauce. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:832-836. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-3-832 [PubMed].