Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5560

Name

Tetragenococcus halophilus (Mees 1934) Collins et al. 1993

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	Tetragenococcus Collins et al. 1993

Members

subspecies	Tetragenococcus halophilus halophilus (Mees 1934) Justé et al. 2012
subspecies	Tetragenococcus halophilus flandriensis Justé et al. 2012

Type Strain

representative organism

IAM 1676^T (=DSM 20339 =LMG 11490 =ATCC 33315 =NRIC 0098 =NCDO 1635)

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 Enterococcaceae Ludwig et al. 2010
genus Tetragenococcus Collins et al. 1993
species Tetragenococcus halophilus (Mees 1934) Collins et al. 1993

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 Tetragenococcus halophilus (Mees 1934) Collins et al. 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5560.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5560.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 17, 2018.

References

Collins MD, Williams AM, Wallbanks S. The phylogeny of Aerococcus and Pediococcus as determined by 16S rRNA sequence analysis: description of Tetragenococcus gen. nov. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1990; 70:255-262. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1990.tb14006.x [PubMed].
Justé A, Van Trappen S, Verreth C, Cleenwerck I, De Vos P, Lievens B, Willems KA. Characterization of Tetragenococcus strains from sugar thick juice reveals a novel species, Tetragenococcus osmophilus sp. nov., and divides Tetragenococcus halophilus into two subspecies, T. halophilus subsp. halophilus subsp. nov. and T. halophilus subsp. flandriensis subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:129-137. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.029157-0 [PubMed].