Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5884

Name

Citricoccus Altenburger et al. 2002 emend. Nielsen et al. 2011

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	Micrococcaceae Pribram 1929 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhi et al. 2009

Members

species	Citricoccus muralis Altenburger et al. 2002
species	Citricoccus alkalitolerans Li et al. 2005 emend. Schäfer et al. 2010
species	Citricoccus lacusdiani Zhang et al. 2021
species	Citricoccus nitrophenolicus Nielsen et al. 2012 emend. Nielsen et al. 2011
species	Citricoccus parietis Schäfer et al. 2010
species	Citricoccus zhacaiensis Meng et al. 2010

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 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 Citricoccus Altenburger et al. 2002 emend. Nielsen et al. 2011

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 Citricoccus Altenburger et al. 2002 emend. Nielsen et al. 2011. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5884.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5884.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 15, 2021.

References

Zhang B-H, Salam N, Cheng J, Xiao M, Li H-Q, Yang J-Y, Zha D-M, Li W-J. Citricoccus lacusdiani sp. nov., an actinobacterium promoting Microcystis growth with limited soluble phosphorus. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:1457-1465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-016-0745-y [PubMed].
Altenburger P, Kämpfer P, Schumann P, Steiner R, Lubitz W, Busse HJ. Citricoccus muralis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from a medieval wall painting. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:2095-2100. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-6-2095 [PubMed].
Meng F-X, Yang X-C, Yu P-S, Pan J-M, Wang C-S, Xu X-W, Wu M. Citricoccus zhacaiensis sp. nov., isolated from a bioreactor for saline wastewater treatment. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:495-499. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.011635-0 [PubMed].
Nielsen MB, Kjeldsen KU, Ingvorsen K. Description of Citricoccus nitrophenolicus sp. nov., a para-nitrophenol degrading actinobacterium isolated from a wastewater treatment plant and emended description of the genus Citricoccus. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2011; 99:489-499. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-010-9513-6 [PubMed].
Li WJ, Chen HH, Zhang YQ, Kim CJ, Park DJ, Lee JC, Xu LH, Jiang CL. Citricoccus alkalitolerans sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from a desert soil in Egypt. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:87-90. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63237-0 [PubMed].
Schäfer J, Martin K, Kämpfer P. Citricoccus parietis sp. nov., isolated from a mould-colonized wall and emended description of Citricoccus alkalitolerans Li et al. 2005. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:271-274. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.012567-0 [PubMed].