Microcella

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Microcella

| authority = Tiago et al. 2005{{cite journal|last1=Tiago|first1=I|last2=Pires|first2=C|last3=Mendes|first3=V|last4=Morais|first4=PV|last5=da Costa|first5=M|last6=Veríssimo|first6=A|title=Microcella putealis gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-positive alkaliphilic bacterium isolated from a nonsaline alkaline groundwater.|journal=Systematic and Applied Microbiology|date=August 2005|volume=28|issue=6|pages=479–87|doi=10.1016/j.syapm.2005.03.004|pmid=16104348}}

| type_species = Microcella putealis

| type_species_authority = Tiago et al. 2005

| subdivision_ranks = Species{{cite journal|last1=Parte|first1=A.C.|title=Microcella|journal=LPSN|url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/microcella}}

| subdivision =

• M. alkalica Xie et al. 2022
• M. alkaliphila Tiago et al. 2006
• M. flavibacter Xie et al. 2022
• M. frigidaquae (Baik et al. 2010) Xie et al. 2022
• "M. indica" (Pei et al. 2021) Xie et al. 2021
• M. putealis Tiago et al. 2005

| synonyms =

• Chryseoglobus Baik et al. 2010
• Yonghaparkia Yoon et al. 2006

}}

Microcella is a Gram-positive, non-spore-forming, aerobic and non-motile genus of bacteria in the family Microbacteriaceae.{{cite journal|last1=Parker|first1=Charles Thomas|last2=Wigley|first2=Sarah|last3=Garrity|first3=George M|last4=Taylor|first4=Dorothea|editor1-first=Charles Thomas|editor1-last=Parker|editor2-first=George M|editor2-last=Garrity|title=Nomenclature Abstract for Microcella Tiago et al. 2005 emend. Tiago et al. 2006.|journal=The NamesforLife Abstracts|date=6 May 2009|doi=10.1601/nm.9654|language=en}}{{cite journal|last1=Veríssimo|first1=António|title=Microcella|journal=Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria|date=14 September 2015|pages=1–4|doi=10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00105|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd|isbn=9781118960608|language=en}}{{cite book|last1=Whitman|first1=William B.|last2=Goodfellow|first2=Michael|last3=Kämpfer|first3=Peter|last4=Busse|first4=Hans-Jürgen|last5=Trujillo|first5=Martha E.|last6=Ludwig|first6=Wolfgang|last7=Suzuki|first7=Ken-ichiro|title=Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 5: The Actinobacteria|date=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9780387682334|language=en}}