Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5461

Name

Aerococcus viridans Williams et al. 1953 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tohno et al. 2014

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Aerococcus Williams et al. 1953 emend. Evans 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

M1^T (=NCTC 8251 =ATCC 11563 =CCUG 4311)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
order Lactobacillales Ludwig et al. 2010
family Aerococcaceae Ludwig et al. 2010
genus Aerococcus Williams et al. 1953 emend. Evans 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Aerococcus viridans Williams et al. 1953 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tohno et al. 2014

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 species Aerococcus viridans Williams et al. 1953 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tohno et al. 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5461.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5461.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 24, 2019.

References

Williams REO, Hirch A, Cowan ST. Aerococcus, a new bacterial genus. J Gen Microbiol 1953; 8:475-480. https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-8-3-475 [PubMed].