Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6001

Name

Kytococcus Stackebrandt et al. 1995

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	Kytococcaceae Nouioui et al. 2018

Members

species	Kytococcus sedentarius (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Stackebrandt et al. 1995 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Kytococcus aerolatus Kämpfer et al. 2009 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Kytococcus schroeteri Becker et al. 2002

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 Dermatophilales Salam et al. 2020
family Kytococcaceae Nouioui et al. 2018
genus Kytococcus Stackebrandt et al. 1995

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 Kytococcus Stackebrandt et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6001.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6001.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 18, 2018.

References

Kämpfer P, Martin K, Schäfer J, Schumann P. Kytococcus aerolatus sp. nov., isolated from indoor air in a room colonized with moulds. Syst Appl Microbiol 2009; 32:301-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2009.05.004.
Nouioui I, Carro L, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk H-P, Goodfellow M, Göker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2018; 9:2007-2007. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02007 [PubMed].
Becker K, Schumann P, Wüllenweber J, Schulte M, Weil HP, Stackebrandt E, Peters G, von Eiff C. Kytococcus schroeteri sp. nov., a novel Gram-positive actinobacterium isolated from a human clinical source. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1609-1614. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02069-0 [PubMed].
Stackebrandt E, Schumann P. Description of Bogoriellaceae fam. nov., Dermacoccaceae fam. nov., Rarobacteraceae fam. nov. and Sanguibacteraceae fam. nov. and emendation of some families of the suborder Micrococcineae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:1279-1285. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-3-1279 [PubMed].
Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:479-491. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-2-479.
Stackebrandt E, Koch C, Gvozdiak O, Schumann P. Taxonomic dissection of the genus Micrococcus: Kocuria gen. nov., Nesterenkonia gen. nov., Kytococcus gen. nov., Dermacoccus gen. nov., and Micrococcus Cohn 1872 gen. emend. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:682-692. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-4-682 [PubMed].