Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5460

Name

Aerococcus Williams et al. 1953 emend. Evans 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Aerococcaceae Ludwig et al. 2010

Members

species	Aerococcus viridans Williams et al. 1953 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tohno et al. 2014
species	Aerococcus christensenii Collins et al. 1999 emend. Tohno et al. 2014
species	Aerococcus sanguinicola corrig. Lawson et al. 2001 emend. Tohno et al. 2014
species	Aerococcus suis Vela et al. 2007 emend. Tohno et al. 2014
species	Aerococcus urinae Aguirre and Collins 1992 emend. Tohno et al. 2014
species	Aerococcus urinaeequi (Garvie 1988) Felis et al. 2005 emend. Tohno et al. 2014
species	Aerococcus urinaehominis Lawson et al. 2001 emend. Tohno et al. 2014
species	Aerococcus vaginalis Tohno 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 Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
order Lactobacillales Ludwig et al. 2010
family Aerococcaceae Ludwig et al. 2010
genus Aerococcus Williams et al. 1953 emend. Evans 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 October 25, 2018.

References

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Aguirre M, Collins MD. Phylogenetic analysis of some Aerococcus-like organisms from urinary tract infections: description of Aerococcus urinae sp. nov. J Gen Microbiol 1992; 138:401-405. https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-138-2-401 [PubMed].
Felis GE, Torriani S, Dellaglio F. Reclassification of Pediococcus urinaeequi (ex Mees 1934) Garvie 1988 as Aerococcus urinaeequi comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1325-1327. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63324-0 [PubMed].
Lawson PA, Falsen E, Truberg-Jensen K, Collins MD. Aerococcus sanguicola sp. nov., isolated from a human clinical source. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:475-479. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-51-2-475 [PubMed].
Tohno M, Kitahara M, Matsuyama S, Kimura K, Ohkuma M, Tajima K. Aerococcus vaginalis sp. nov., isolated from the vaginal mucosa of a beef cow, and emended descriptions of Aerococcus suis, Aerococcus viridans, Aerococcus urinaeequi, Aerococcus urinaehominis, Aerococcus urinae, Aerococcus christensenii and Aerococcus sanguinicola. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1229-1236. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.058081-0 [PubMed].
Collins MD, Jovita MR, Hutson RA, Ohlén M, Falsen E. Aerococcus christensenii sp. nov., from the human vagina. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1125-1128. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-3-1125 [PubMed].
Lawson PA, Falsen E, Ohlén M, Collins MD. Aerococcus urinaehominis sp. nov., isolated from human urine. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:683-686. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-51-2-683 [PubMed].
Vela AI, García N, Latre MV, Casamayor A, Sánchez-Porro C, Briones V, Ventosa A, Domínguez L, Fernández-Garayzábal JF. Aerococcus suis sp. nov., isolated from clinical specimens from swine. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1291-1294. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64537-0 [PubMed].