Micrococcaceae


Micrococcaceae, from Ancient Greek μικρός, meaning "small", and κόκκος, meaning "sphere", includes bacterial genera of Gram positive cocci that inhabit the air and skin, such as Micrococcus luteus.

Genera

The family Micrococcaceae comprises the following genera:Acaricomes Pukall et al. 2006Arthrobacter Conn and Dimmick 1947 Auritidibacter Yassin et al. 2011Citricoccus Altenburger et al. 2002Enteractinococcus Cao et al. 2012Falsarthrobacter Busse and Moore 2018Galactobacter Hahne et al. 2019Garicola Lo et al. 2015Glutamicibacter Busse 2016Haematomicrobium Schumann and Busse 2017Kocuria Stackebrandt et al. 1995Micrococcoides Tóth et al. 2017Micrococcus Cohn 1872 Neomicrococcus Prakash et al. 2015Nesterenkonia Stackebrandt et al. 1995Paenarthrobacter Busse 2016Paeniglutamicibacter Busse 2016Pseudarthrobacter Busse 2016Pseudoglutamicibacter Busse 2016Psychromicrobium Schumann et al. 2017Renibacterium Sanders and Fryer 1980Rothia Georg and Brown 1967 Sinomonas Zhou et al. 2009Specibacter Lee and Schumann 2019Tersicoccus Vaishampayan et al. 2013Yaniella Li et al. 2008Zafaria Amin et al. 2021Zhihengliuella Zhang et al. 2007

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature and the phylogeny is based on whole-genome sequences.