Genus Tersicoccus
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 2
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Tersicoccus Vaishampayan et al. 2013, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Tersicoccus phoenicis Vaishampayan et al. 2013.
Etymology: L. part. adj. tersus (from L. v. tergeo), clean; N.L. masc. n.coccus (from Gr. n. kokkos a grain or berry), coccus; N.L. masc. n. Tersicoccus, clean coccus, intended to mean isolated from clean rooms.
Reference: VAISHAMPAYAN, P., MOISSL-EICHINGER, C., PUKALL, R., SCHUMANN, P., SPRÖER, C., AUGUSTUS, A., ROBERTS, A. H., NAMBA, G., CISNEROS, J., SALMASSI, T. and VENKATESWARAN, K. . Description of Tersicoccus phoenicis gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from spacecraft assembly clean room environments. .
Original article in IJSEM Online
Tersicoccus phoenicis Vaishampayan et al. 2013, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) 1P05MA=NRRL B-59547=DSM 30849.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: EU977596.
Etymology: L. gen. n. phoenicis of phoenix, isolated from the surface of the Mars Phoenix spacecraft assembly facility.
Source: Environmental.
Reference: VAISHAMPAYAN, P., MOISSL-EICHINGER, C., PUKALL, R., SCHUMANN, P., SPRÖER, C., AUGUSTUS, A., ROBERTS, A. H., NAMBA, G., CISNEROS, J., SALMASSI, T. and VENKATESWARAN, K. . Description of Tersicoccus phoenicis gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from spacecraft assembly clean room environments.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Tersicoccus solisilvae Sultanpuram et al. 2016, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) 36A=KCTC 33776=CGMCC 1.15480.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: LT601574.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: .
Etymology: L. neut. n. solum, soil; L. fem. n. silva, forest; N.L. gen. n. solisilvae, of/from forest soil.
Source: Environmental - soil.
Valid publication: SULTANPURAM, V. R., MOTHE, T., CHINTALAPATI, S. and CHINTALAPATI, V. R. 2016. Tersicoccus solisilvae sp., nov., a bacterium isolated from forest soil. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 5061-5065.
Original article in IJSEM Online