
Name DOI	10.1601/nm.5837
Name	Micrococcus sedentarius ZoBell and Upham 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)
Name Status	Validly Published
Current Authority	ZoBell and Upham 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)
Preferred Name	Kytococcus sedentarius
Taxonomic Rank	species
Nomenclatural Type (designated strain)	Refer to the type exemplar.

Taxonomy	10.1601/tx.5837
Type Strain representative organism	541^T (=ATCC 14392 =JCM 11482 =CCM 314 =DSM 20547)


Proper Form	Micrococcus sedentarius ZoBell and Upham 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)
Nomenclatural History	The species Micrococcus sedentarius was originally described by ZoBell and Upham 1944. This name appeared on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980. In 1995, Stackebrandt et al. established Micrococcus sedentarius as the basonym of Kytococcus sedentarius (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Stackebrandt et al. 1995 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018 .

Citation	When referring specifically to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier. Name Abstract for Micrococcus sedentarius ZoBell and Upham 1944 (Approved Lists 1980).April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.5837.
Source File	10.1601/nm.5837.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 13, 2009.

References

ZoBell CE, Upham HC. A list of marine bacteria including descriptions of sixty new species. Bull Scripps Inst Oceanogr Univ Calif, Techn Ser 1944; 5:239-292.
Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.
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].