Streptococcaceae
{{Short description|Family of bacteria}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Streptococcaceae
|image = Streptococcus mutans Gram.jpg
| authority =Deibel & Seeley 1974
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
|synonyms =
- "Mogalliidae" corrig. Enderlein 1917
- "Pseudostreptoideae" corrig. Enderlein 1917
- "Streptococceae" De Toni & Trevisan 1889
}}
Streptococcaceae, from Ancient Greek στρεπτός (streptós), meaning "twisted", and κόκκος (kókkos), meaning "sphere", are a family of gram-positive bacteria, placed within the order Lactobacillales.{{cite book|author=Christopher G. Morris|title=Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nauWlPTBcjIC&pg=PA2110|year=1992|publisher=Gulf Professional Publishing|isbn=978-0-12-200400-1|page=2110}} Representative genera include Lactococcus, Lactovum, and Streptococcus.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN){{cite web |author=J.P. Euzéby |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/family/Streptococcaceae |title=Streptococcaceae |access-date=2022-09-09 |publisher=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)}} and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).{{cite web |author=Sayers |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=1300&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock |title=Streptococcaceae |access-date=2022-09-09 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database |display-authors=et al.}}
See also
References
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