Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.5525
Name
 (ex Thiercelin and Jouhaud 1903) Schleifer and Kilpper-Bälz 1984
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Ludwig et al. 2010
Members
(Andrewes and Horder 1906) Schleifer and Kilpper-Bälz 1984
Frolková et al. 2013
Chung et al. 2022
Švec et al. 2005
de Vaux et al. 1998
(ex Nowlan and Deibel 1967) Collins et al. 1984
Kadri et al. 2016
Carvalho et al. 2006
Sukontasing et al. 2007
Naser et al. 2005
De Graef et al. 2003
(ex Vaughn et al. 1979) Collins et al. 1984
(Devriese et al. 1983) Williams et al. 1989
Devriese et al. 1993
McLaughlin et al. 2017
Švec et al. 2005
Kim et al. 2013
Collins et al. 1991
Li and Gu 2019
(ex Sherman and Wing 1937) Collins et al. 1984
Cotta et al. 2013
(Orla-Jensen 1919) Schleifer and Kilpper-Bälz 1984
Pompei et al. 1992
Techo et al. 2019
(Bridge and Sneath 1982) Collins et al. 1984
Tyrrell et al. 2002
Švec et al. 2001
Koort et al. 2004
Farrow and Collins 1985
Li and Gu 2019
Gooch et al. 2021
Fortina et al. 2004
Morandi et al. 2012 emend. Li and Gu 2019
Kim et al. 2022
Cotta et al. 2013
(ex Pette 1955) Collins et al. 1984
Švec et al. 2001
Collins et al. 1986
Li and Gu 2019
Lucena-Padrós et al. 2014
Tyrrell et al. 2002
Law-Brown and Meyers 2003
Li and Gu 2019
Švec et al. 2012
Teixeira et al. 2001
Collins et al. 1989
Sistek et al. 2012
Collins et al. 1989
Teixeira et al. 2001
Niemi et al. 2012
Sedláček et al. 2013
(Farrow et al. 1985) Rodrigues and Collins 1991 emend. Chen et al. 2013
Vancanneyt et al. 2004
Harada et al. 2016
Kusuda et al. 1991
Švec et al. 2006
Collins et al. 1989
Li and Gu 2019
Martinez-Murcia and Collins 1991
Švec et al. 2006
Tanasupawat et al. 2008
Sistek et al. 2012
Sedláček et al. 2013
Rahkila et al. 2011
Vancanneyt et al. 2001
Jin et al. 2017
Li et al. 2014
Ren et al. 2020
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
  Ludwig et al. 2010
  Ludwig et al. 2010
  Ludwig et al. 2010
  (ex Thiercelin and Jouhaud 1903) Schleifer and Kilpper-Bälz 1984

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 Enterococcus (ex Thiercelin and Jouhaud 1903) Schleifer and Kilpper-Bälz 1984. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5525.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on June 1, 2022.

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