Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5225

Name

Marinococcus Hao et al. 1985 emend. Wang et al. 2009

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	Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Marinococcus halophilus (Novitsky and Kushner 1976) Hao et al. 1985
species	Marinococcus albus Hao et al. 1985
species	Marinococcus halotolerans Li et al. 2005
species	Marinococcus hispanicus Marquez et al. 1990
species	Marinococcus luteus Wang et al. 2009
species	Marinococcus salis Reddy et al. 2017
species	Marinococcus tarijensis Balderrama-Subieta et al. 2013

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 Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Marinococcus Hao et al. 1985 emend. Wang et al. 2009

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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This information was last reviewed on December 5, 2016.

References

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Li WJ, Schumann P, Zhang YQ, Chen GZ, Tian XP, Xu LH, Stackebrandt E, Jiang CL. Marinococcus halotolerans sp. nov., isolated from Qinghai, north-west China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1801-1804. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63596-0 [PubMed].
Wang Y, Cao L-L, Tang S-K, Lou K, Mao P-H, Jin X, Jiang C-L, Xu L-H, Li W-J. Marinococcus luteus sp. nov., a halotolerant bacterium isolated from a salt lake, and emended description of the genus Marinococcus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2875-2879. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.009670-0 [PubMed].
Reddy SV, Thirumala M, Farooq M, Sasikala C, Ramana CV. Marinococcus salis sp., nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt marsh. Arch Microbiol 2016; 198:1013-1018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-016-1263-z [PubMed].
Marquez MC, Ventosa A, Ruiz-Berraquera F. Marinococcus hispanicus, a new species of moderately halophilic Gram-positive cocci. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:165-169. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-40-2-165.
Logan NA, De Vos P. Family I. Bacillaceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity G, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, Schleifer KH, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 3, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2009, p. 20.
Hao MV, Kocur M, Komagata K. Marinococcus gen. nov., a new genus for motile cocci with meso-diaminopimelic acid in the cell wall; and Marinococcus albus sp. nov. and Marinococcus halophilus (Novitsky and Kushner) comb. nov. J Gen Appl Microbiol 1984; 30:449-459. https://doi.org/10.2323/jgam.30.449.