Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6024

Name

Terracoccus Prauser et al. 1997

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	Intrasporangiaceae Rainey et al. 1997 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

Members

species	Terracoccus luteus Prauser et al. 1997

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 Intrasporangiaceae Rainey et al. 1997 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
genus Terracoccus Prauser et al. 1997

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 Terracoccus Prauser et al. 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6024.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6024.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 17, 2009.

References

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].
Prauser H, Schumann P, Rainey FA, Kroppenstedt RM, Stackebrandt E. Terracoccus luteus gen. nov., sp. nov., an LL-diaminopimelic acid-containing coccoid actinomycete from soil. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:1218-1224. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-4-1218 [PubMed].