Croceicoccus
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- phylum
- Pseudomonadota
- class
- Alphaproteobacteria
- order
- Sphingomonadales
- family
- Erythrobacteraceae
- genus
- Croceicoccus
Abstract
Croceicoccus is a genus in the phylum Pseudomonadota (Bacteria).
Etymology
The name Croceicoccus derives from:Latin adjective croceus, yellow, golden; New Latin masculine gender noun coccus (from Greek masculine gender noun kokkos (κόκκος)), grain or berry; New Latin masculine gender noun Croceicoccus, yellow coccus, referring to a yellow coccoid-shaped bacterium.
Species
The genus contains a single species, namely C. marinus ( Xu et al. 2009, (Type species of the genus).; Latin masculine gender adjective marinus, of or belonging to the sea, marine.)
Name
- Homonyms
- Croceicoccus