Geminicoccaceae Proença et al. 2018
General information
Name
Geminicoccaceae
Valid publication
2018
Effective publication
2018
Nomenclature type
Geminicoccus
Etymology
N.L. masc. n. <i>Geminicoccus</i> type genus of the family; L. suff. -<i>aceae</i>, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. <i>Geminicoccaceae</i>, the <i>Geminicoccaceae</i> family.
Description and emendation
Original Description
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Cells are diplococci and non-motile. Aerobic or facultatively anaerobic. UK-10 is the type of the ubiquinone, and a fatty acid profile containing C16:0, cyclo-C19:0 ω8c and summed feature 8 (C18:1 ω7c or C18:1 ω6c) are the most important characteristics.
Subdivision(s)
MID | Name | Rank | Taxon ID |
---|---|---|---|
M022502110301 | Arboricoccus | Genus | 2066435 |
M022502110302 | Geminicoccus | Genus | 489140 |
References
1
Proenca, D.N., Whitman, W.B., Varghese, N., Shapiro, N., Woyke, T., Kyrpides, N.C., and Morais, P.V. Arboriscoccus pini gen. nov., sp. nov., an endophyte from a pine tree of the class Alphaproteobacteria, emended description of Geminicoccus roseus, and proposal of Geminicoccaceae fam. nov. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. (2018) 41:94-100.[DOI:10.1016/j.syapm.2017.11.006]
[PMID:29325988]
2
Validation List No. 182. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2018) 68:2130-2133.[DOI:10.1099/ijsem.0.002831]