Magnetococcus

{{short description|Order of bacteria}}

{{Taxobox

| color = lightgrey

| name = Magnetococcus

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Pseudomonadota

| classis = "Magnetococcia"

| ordo = Magnetococcales

| familia = Magnetococcaceae

| genus = Magnetococcus

| genus_authority = Bazylinski et al. 2013{{cite journal |vauthors=Bazylinski DA, Williams TJ, Lefevre CT, Berg RJ, Zhang CL, Bowser SS, Dean AJ, Beveridge TJ | title = Magnetococcus marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine, magnetotactic bacterium that represents a novel lineage (Magnetococcaceae fam. nov., Magnetococcales ord. nov.) at the base of the Alphaproteobacteria | journal = Int J Syst Evol Microbiol | year = 2013 | volume = 63 | issue = Pt 3 | pages = 801–808| doi = 10.1099/ijs.0.038927-0 | pmid = 22581902 }}

| type_species = Magnetococcus marinus

| type_species_authority = Bazylinski et al. 2013

| subdivision_ranks = Species{{cite web|vauthors=Euzéby JP, Parte AC |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/magnetococcus |title=Magnetococcus |access-date=June 2, 2021 |publisher=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)}}

| subdivision =

• M. marinus Bazylinski et al. 2013
• "Ca. M. massalia" Lefèvre et al. 2009
• "Ca. M. yuandaduensis" corrig. Lin and Pan 2009

}}

Magnetococcus is a genus of Alphaproteobacteria.