Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5831

Name

Micrococcus antarcticus Liu et al. 2000

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	Micrococcus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Wieser et al. 2002

Type Strain

representative organism

T2^T (=AS 1.2372)

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 Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
order Actinomycetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Salam et al. 2020
suborder Micrococcineae Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Yassin et al. 2011
family Micrococcaceae Pribram 1929 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhi et al. 2009
genus Micrococcus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Wieser et al. 2002
species Micrococcus antarcticus Liu et al. 2000

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 Micrococcus antarcticus Liu et al. 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5831.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5831.xml

References

Liu H, Xu Y, Ma Y, Zhou P. Characterization of Micrococcus antarcticus sp. nov., a psychrophilic bacterium from Antarctica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:715-719. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-2-715 [PubMed].