Micrococcaceae

Micrococcaceae, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós), meaning "small", and κόκκος (kókkos), meaning "sphere", includes bacterial genera of Gram positive cocci that inhabit the air and skin, such as Micrococcus luteus.

Genera

The family Micrococcaceae comprises the following genera:

• Acaricomes <small>Pukall et al. 2006</small>
• Arthrobacter <small>Conn and Dimmick 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)</small>
• Auritidibacter <small>Yassin et al. 2011</small>

• Citricoccus <small>Altenburger et al. 2002</small>
• Enteractinococcus <small>Cao et al. 2012</small>
• Falsarthrobacter <small>Busse and Moore 2018</small>
• Galactobacter <small>Hahne et al. 2019</small>
• Garicola <small>Lo et al. 2015</small>
• Glutamicibacter <small>Busse 2016</small>
• Haematomicrobium <small>Schumann and Busse 2017</small>
• Kocuria <small>Stackebrandt et al. 1995</small>
• Micrococcoides <small>Tóth et al. 2017</small>
• Micrococcus <small>Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)</small>
• Neomicrococcus <small>Prakash et al. 2015</small>
• Nesterenkonia <small>Stackebrandt et al. 1995</small>
• Paenarthrobacter <small>Busse 2016</small>
• Paeniglutamicibacter <small>Busse 2016</small>

• Pseudarthrobacter <small>Busse 2016</small>
• Pseudoglutamicibacter <small>Busse 2016</small>
• Psychromicrobium <small>Schumann et al. 2017</small>
• Renibacterium <small>Sanders and Fryer 1980</small>
• Rothia <small>Georg and Brown 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)</small>
• Sinomonas <small>Zhou et al. 2009</small>
• Specibacter <small>Lee and Schumann 2019</small>

• Tersicoccus <small>Vaishampayan et al. 2013</small>

• Yaniella <small>Li et al. 2008</small>
• Zafaria <small>Amin et al. 2021</small>
• Zhihengliuella <small>Zhang et al. 2007</small>

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature and the phylogeny is based on whole-genome sequences.

Notes

References

External links

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser