Streptococcaceae
| Streptococcaceae | |
|---|---|
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| Streptococcus mutans | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Lactobacillales |
| Family: | Streptococcaceae Deibel and Seeley 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)[1] |
| Type genus | |
| Streptococcus Rosenbach 1884 (Approved Lists 1980) | |
| Genera[1] | |
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Streptococcaceae is a family of Gram-positive bacteria in the order Lactobacillales.[2] The family contains four genera with validly published and correct names: Floricoccus, Lactococcus, Lactovum, and Streptococcus.[1] The family name is derived from its type genus, Streptococcus, whose name comes from the Ancient Greek words στρεπτός (streptós), meaning "twisted", and κόκκος (kókkos), meaning "grain".[2]
Phylogeny
The genus-level tree below is based on the positions of type-species representatives in the GTDB R11-RS232 bacterial reference tree.[3][4][5]
| Genus-level phylogeny based on 120 marker proteins (GTDB R11-RS232) | |||||||||
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See also
References
- 1 2 3 "Family: Streptococcaceae". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- 1 2 Christopher G. Morris (1992). Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology. Gulf Professional Publishing. p. 2110. ISBN 978-0-12-200400-1.
- ↑ "GTDB R232 statistics". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- ↑ "About GTDB". Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- ↑ "GTDB R11-RS232 bacterial reference tree" (Newick). Genome Taxonomy Database. Retrieved 16 August 2026.