Name: Micrococceae Prévot 1961 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Tribe

Proposed as: new tribe

Etymology: Mi.cro.coc’ce.ae. N.L. masc. n. Micrococcus, type genus of the tribe; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -eae, ending to denote a tribe; N.L. fem. pl. n. Micrococceae, the Micrococcus tribe

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: mi-kro-KOK-ke-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Micrococcus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Prévot AR. Traite de systematique bacterienne. Volume 2. Dunod, Paris, 1961.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Prevot (1961) assigned the genus Micrococcus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980) to this tribe. Publication: Prévot AR. Traite de systematique bacterienne. Volume 2. Dunod, Paris, 1961.
  • 🧒 Prevot (1961) assigned the genus Sarcina Goodsir 1842 (Approved Lists 1980) to this tribe. Publication: Prévot AR. Traite de systematique bacterienne. Volume 2. Dunod, Paris, 1961.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Micwcocoeae".
  • 😵 The taxonomic category of this name is not currently in use in the LPSN hierarchy. For this reason, this name does not have a parent taxon and does not have child taxa.

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Record number: 6053