Mammaliicoccus sciuri

Mammaliicoccus sciuri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Caryophanales
Family: Staphylococcaceae
Genus: Mammaliicoccus
Species:
M. sciuri
Binomial name
Mammaliicoccus sciuri
Madhaiyan et al. 2020

Mammaliicoccus sciuri, previously Staphylococcus sciuri, is a Gram-positive, oxidase-positive, coagulase-negative member of the bacterial genus Mammaliicoccus consisting of clustered cocci. The type subspecies M. sciuri subsp. sciuri was originally known as Staphylococcus sciuri subsp. sciuri and used to categorize 35 strains shown to use cellobiose, galactose, sucrose, and glycerol.[1]

In 2020, Madhaiyan et al. renamed the genus for M. sciuri from Staphylococcus to Mammaliicoccus.[2]

  1. ^ Kloos, W. E.; Schliefer, K. H.; Smith R. F. (1 January 1976). "Characterization of Staphylococcus sciuri sp.nov. and its Subspecies". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 26 (1): 22–37. doi:10.1099/00207713-26-1-22.
  2. ^ Madhaiyan, M.; Wirth, J. S.; Saravanan V. S. (14 October 2020). "Phylogenomic analyses of the Staphylococcaceae family suggest the reclassification of five species within the genus Staphylococcus as heterotypic synonyms, the promotion of five subspecies to novel species, the taxonomic reassignment of five Staphylococcus species to Mammaliicoccus gen. nov., and the formal assignment of Nosocomiicoccus to the family Staphylococcaceae". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 70 (11): 5926–5936. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004498. PMID 33052802.