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Tetrasphaera

Tetrasphaera is a bacterial genus from the family Intrasporangiaceae.

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Tetrasphaera
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetes
Order: Micrococcales
Family: Intrasporangiaceae
Genus: Tetrasphaera
Maszenan et al. 20001
Type species
Tetrasphaera japonica
Maszenan et al. 2000
Species2
Synonyms2
  • "Candidatus Nostocoides" corrig. Blackall et al. 2000
  • "Candidatus Nostocoida" Blackall et al. 2000

Tetrasphaera is a bacterial genus from the family Intrasporangiaceae.123

References

References

  1. Maszenan AM, Seviour RJ, Patel BK, Schumann P, Burghardt J, Tokiwa Y, Stratton HM. (2000). "Three isolates of novel polyphosphate-accumulating gram-positive cocci, obtained from activated sludge, belong to a new genus, Tetrasphaera gen. nov., and description of two new species, Tetrasphaera japonica sp. nov. and Tetrasphaera australiensis sp. nov". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 50: 593–603. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-2-593. PMID 10758865.
  2. LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
  3. Garrity, George M. (2012). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Science + Business Media. ISBN 978-0-387-68233-4.
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