Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.29793

Name

Alkalicoccus Zhao et al. 2017 emend. Gupta et al. 2020

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2016]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Incertae sedis 50 Zhao et al. 2017

Members

species	Alkalicoccus saliphilus (Romano et al. 2005) Zhao et al. 2017
species	Alkalicoccus chagannorensis (Carrasco et al. 2007) Gupta et al. 2020
species	Alkalicoccus daliensis (Zhai et al. 2012) Gupta et al. 2020
species	Alkalicoccus halolimnae Zhao et al. 2017
species	Alkalicoccus luteus (Subhash et al. 2014) Gupta et al. 2020
species	Alkalicoccus urumqiensis (Zhang et al. 2016) Gupta et al. 2020

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 Bacillales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Incertae sedis 50 Zhao et al. 2017
genus Alkalicoccus Zhao et al. 2017 emend. Gupta et al. 2020

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

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Taxon Abstract for the genus Alkalicoccus Zhao et al. 2017 emend. Gupta et al. 2020. NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.29793.


This information was last reviewed on December 2, 2020.

References

Gupta RS, Patel S, Saini N, Chen S. Robust demarcation of 17 distinct Bacillus species clades, proposed as novel Bacillaceae genera, by phylogenomics and comparative genomic analyses: description of Robertmurraya kyonggiensis sp. nov. and proposal for an emended genus Bacillus limiting it only to the members of the Subtilis and Cereus clades of species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5753-5798. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004475 [PubMed].
Zhao B, Lu W, Zhang S, Liu K, Yan Y, Li J. Alkalicoccus halolimnae gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt lake, and reclassification of Bacillus saliphilus as Alkalicoccus saliphilus comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1557-1563. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001759 [PubMed].