Name: Neomicrococcus lactis (Chittpurna et al. 2011) Prakash et al. 2015

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Micrococcus lactis Chittpurna et al. 2011

Etymology: lac’tis. L. gen. neut. n. lactis, from milk, relating to the isolation of the type strain from dairy waste

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 23694; DW152; MCC 2278; MTCC 10523

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FN673681 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Prakash O, Sharma A, Nimonkar Y, Shouche YS. Proposal for creation of a new genus Neomicrococcus gen. nov. to accommodate Zhihengliuella aestuarii Baik et al. 2011 and Micrococcus lactis Chittpurna et al. 2011 as Neomicrococcus aestuarii comb. nov. and Neomicrococcus lactis comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3771-3776.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:527-529.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Micrococcus lactis Chittpurna et al. 2011	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. Whether taxa can have "members" is debatable. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281.
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.17200 (N = 14).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Neomicrococcus Prakash et al. 2015

Assigned by: Prakash O, Sharma A, Nimonkar Y, Shouche YS. Proposal for creation of a new genus Neomicrococcus gen. nov. to accommodate Zhihengliuella aestuarii Baik et al. 2011 and Micrococcus lactis Chittpurna et al. 2011 as Neomicrococcus aestuarii comb. nov. and Neomicrococcus lactis comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3771-3776.

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