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Tersicoccus

Tersicoccus is a Gram-positive genus of bacteria from the family Micrococcaceae.

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Tersicoccus
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetes
Order: Micrococcales
Family: Micrococcaceae
Genus: Tersicoccus
Vaishampayan et al. 20131
Type species
Tersicoccus phoenicis
Vaishampayan et al. 2013
Species2
  • T. phoenicis Vaishampayan et al. 2013
  • T. solisilvae Sultanpuram et al. 2016

Tersicoccus is a Gram-positive genus of bacteria from the family Micrococcaceae.1

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  1. Vaishampayan P, Moissl-Eichinger C, Pukall R, Schumann P, Sproer C, Augustus A, Roberts AH, Namba G, Cisneros J, Salmassi T, Venkateswaran K. (2013). "Description of Tersicoccus phoenicis gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from spacecraft assembly clean room environments". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 63 (7): 2463–2471. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.047134-0. PMID 23223813.
  2. Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Tersicoccus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved June 16, 2022.