Croceicoccus
{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}
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{{Taxobox
| name = Croceicoccus
| domain = Bacteria
| phylum = Pseudomonadota
| classis = Alphaproteobacteria
| ordo = Sphingomonadales
| familia = Erythrobacteraceae
| genus = Croceicoccus
| binomial_authority = Xu et al. 2009
| type_species = C. marinus
| subdivision_ranks = Species
}}
Croceicoccus is a genus in the phylum Pseudomonadota (Bacteria).{{lpsn|classificationac.html|Classification of Genera AC}}
Etymology
The name Croceicoccus derives from:
Latin adjective croceus, yellow, golden; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun coccus (from Greek masculine gender noun kokkos (κόκκος)), grain or berry; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Croceicoccus, yellow coccus, referring to a yellow coccoid-shaped bacterium.{{lpsn|c/croceicoccus.html|Croceicoccus}}
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.){{Cite journal | last1 = Xu | first1 = X. -W. | last2 = Wu | first2 = Y. -H. | last3 = Wang | first3 = C. -S. | last4 = Wang | first4 = X. -G. | last5 = Oren | first5 = A. | last6 = Wu | first6 = M. | title = Croceicoccus marinus gen. Nov., sp. Nov., a yellow-pigmented bacterium from deep-sea sediment, and emended description of the family Erythrobacteraceae | journal = International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | volume = 59 | issue = 9 | pages = 2247–2253 | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1099/ijs.0.004267-0 | pmid=19620383| doi-access = free }}
See also
References
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Category:Monotypic bacteria genera
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