Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.3100

Name

Alterococcus Shieh and Jean 1999

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	Opitutaceae Choo et al. 2007 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018

Members

species	Alterococcus agarolyticus Shieh and Jean 1999

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 Verrucomicrobia (sic) Hedlund 2021
class Opitutae Choo et al. 2007
order Opitutales Choo et al. 2007
family Opitutaceae Choo et al. 2007 emend. Tegtmeier et al. 2018
genus Alterococcus Shieh and Jean 1999

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 Alterococcus Shieh and Jean 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.3100.

Source File

10.1601/tx.3100.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 21, 2009.

References

Farmer JJ, Brenner DJ. Family I. Enterobacteriaceae. In: Garrity GM, Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 2, Part B, Springer, New York, 2005, p. 587.
Shieh WY, Jean WD. Alterococcus agarolyticus, gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic thermophilic bacterium capable of agar degradation. Can J Microbiol 1998; 44:637-645. [PubMed].
Choo YJ, Lee K, Song J, Cho JC. Puniceicoccus vermicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium, and description of Puniceicoccaceae fam. nov., Puniceicoccales ord. nov., Opitutaceae fam. nov., Opitutales ord. nov. and Opitutae classis nov. in the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:532-537. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64616-0 [PubMed].