Name: Catellicoccus Lawson et al. 2006

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ca.tel’li.coc’cus. L. fem. dim. n. catella, small chain; N.L. masc. n. coccus, grain; from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, berry; N.L. masc. n. Catellicoccus, coccus forming small chains

Gender: masculine (stem: Catellicocc-)

Type species: Catellicoccus marimammalium Lawson et al. 2006

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lawson PA, Collins MD, Falsen E, Foster G. Catellicoccus marimammalium gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel Gram-positive, catalase-negative, coccus-shaped bacterium from porpoise and grey seal. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:429-432.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:929-930.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Catellicoccaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Catellicoccaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cateillococcus".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Klein G. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus and Related Organisms: Minutes of the meetings, 30 August and 1 September 2006, Bologna, Italy. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2007; 57:1367-1369.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.01728 (N = 2).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; CCUG: 1; CIP: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Catellicoccus marimammalium Lawson et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Enterococcaceae Ludwig et al. 2010

Assigned by: Killer J, Svec P, Sedlacek I, Cernohlavkova J, Benada O, Hroncova Z, Havlik J, Vlkova E, Rada V, Kopecny J, et al. Vagococcus entomophilus sp. nov., from the digestive tract of a wasp (Vespula vulgaris). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:731-737.

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