Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9508

Name

Atopococcus Collins et al. 2005

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	Carnobacteriaceae Ludwig et al. 2010

Members

species	Atopococcus tabaci Collins et al. 2005

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 Carnobacteriaceae Ludwig et al. 2010
genus Atopococcus Collins et al. 2005

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 Atopococcus Collins et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9508.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9508.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 24, 2009.

References

Collins MD, Wiernik A, Falsen E, Lawson PA. Atopococcus tabaci gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel Gram-positive, catalase-negative, coccus-shaped bacterium isolated from tobacco. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1693-1696. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63618-0 [PubMed].