Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5589

Name

Oenococcus Dicks et al. 1995 emend. Bello et al. 2022

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	Lactobacillaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zheng et al. 2020

Members

species	Oenococcus oeni (Garvie 1967) Dicks et al. 1995
species	Oenococcus alcoholitolerans Badotti et al. 2015
species	Oenococcus aquikefiri Verce et al. 2020
species	Oenococcus kitaharae Endo and Okada 2006

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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
order Lactobacillales Ludwig et al. 2010
family Lactobacillaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zheng et al. 2020
genus Oenococcus Dicks et al. 1995 emend. Bello et al. 2022

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 Oenococcus Dicks et al. 1995 emend. Bello et al. 2022. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5589.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5589.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 1, 2022.

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