Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6625

Name

Luteococcus Tamura et al. 1994 emend. Collins et al. 2000

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	Propionibacteriaceae Delwiche 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhi et al. 2009

Members

species	Luteococcus japonicus Tamura et al. 1994
species	Luteococcus peritonei Collins et al. 2000
species	Luteococcus sanguinis Collins et al. 2003
species	Luteococcus sediminum Fan et al. 2014

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 Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
order Propionibacteriales (Rainey et al. 1997) Patrick and McDowell 2015 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
family Propionibacteriaceae Delwiche 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zhi et al. 2009
genus Luteococcus Tamura et al. 1994 emend. Collins et al. 2000

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 Luteococcus Tamura et al. 1994 emend. Collins et al. 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6625.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6625.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 5, 2014.

References

Tamura T, Takeuchi M, Yokota A. Luteococcus japonicus gen. nov., sp. nov., a new gram-positive coccus with LL-diaminopimelic acid in the cell wall. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:348-356. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-44-2-348 [PubMed].
Fan X, Zhang Z, Li Z, Zhang X-H. Luteococcus sediminum sp. nov., isolated from deep sub-seafloor sediment of South Pacific Gyre. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2522-2527. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.058529-0 [PubMed].
Collins MD, Lawson PA, Nikolaitchouk N, Falsen E. Luteococcus peritonei sp. nov., isolated from the human peritoneum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:179-181. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-1-179 [PubMed].
Collins MD, Hutson RA, Nikolaitchouk N, Nyberg A, Falsen E. Luteococcus sanguinis sp. nov., isolated from human blood. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1889-1891. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02236-0 [PubMed].
Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:479-491. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-2-479.