Paracoccus (bacterium)

Paracoccus is a genus of bacteria in the family Paracoccaceae (previously in the family Rhodobacteraceae).^[2]

Paracoccus
P. yeei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rhodobacterales
Family:	Paracoccaceae
Genus:	Paracoccus Davis 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)
Species and subspecies
See text
Synonyms[1]
Thiosphaera Robertson and Kuenen 1984

Species

Accepted species

The following species have been effectively and validly published:^[1]

• Paracoccus acridae Zhang et al. 2016
• Paracoccus aeridis Rai et al. 2020
• Paracoccus aerius Xue et al. 2017
• Paracoccus aerodenitrificans Zhang et al. 2023
• Paracoccus aestuarii Roh et al. 2009
• Paracoccus aestuariivivens Park et al. 2016
• Paracoccus albicereus He et al. 2023
• Paracoccus albus Zhang et al. 2023
• Paracoccus alcaliphilus Urakami et al. 1989
• Paracoccus alimentarius Kim et al. 2018
• Paracoccus alkanivorans Zhang et al. 2020
• Paracoccus alkenifer Lipski et al. 1998
• Paracoccus aminophilus Urakami et al. 1990
• Paracoccus aminovorans Urakami et al. 1990
• Paracoccus amoyensis Lyu et al. 2021
• Paracoccus angustae Sun et al. 2015
• Paracoccus aurantiacus Ye et al. 2020
• Paracoccus bengalensis Ghosh et al. 2006
• Paracoccus caeni Lee et al. 2011
• Paracoccus carotinifaciens Tsubokura et al. 1999
• Paracoccus cavernae Dominguez-Moñino et al. 2016
• Paracoccus chinensis Li et al. 2009
• Paracoccus communis Poroshina et al. 2014
• Paracoccus contaminans Kämpfer et al. 2016
• Paracoccus denitrificans (Beijerinck and Minkman 1910) Davis 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)
• Paracoccus endophyticus Zhang et al. 2019
• Paracoccus everestensis Cui et al. 2022
• Paracoccus fistulariae Kim et al. 2010
• Paracoccus fontiphilus Sheu et al. 2018
• Paracoccus haematequi Kämpfer et al. 2019
• Paracoccus haeundaensis Lee et al. 2004
• Paracoccus halophilus Liu et al. 2008
• Paracoccus halotolerans Meng et al. 2019
• Paracoccus hibisci Yan et al. 2017
• Paracoccus hibiscisoli Lin et al. 2017
• Paracoccus homiensis Kim et al. 2006
• Paracoccus huijuniae Sun et al. 2013
• Paracoccus isoporae Chen et al. 2011
• Paracoccus kocurii Ohara et al. 1990
• Paracoccus kondratievae Doronina and Trotsenko 2001
• Paracoccus koreensis La et al. 2005
• Paracoccus laeviglucosivorans Nakamura 2015
• Paracoccus liaowanqingii Li et al. 2020
• Paracoccus lichenicola Lang et al. 2023
• Paracoccus limosus Lee and Lee 2013
• Paracoccus litorisediminis Park et al. 2017
• Paracoccus luteus Ming et al. 2020
• Paracoccus lutimaris Jung et al. 2014
• Paracoccus mangrovi Chen et al. 2017
• Paracoccus marcusii Harker et al. 1998
• Paracoccus marinaquae Xue et al. 2023
• Paracoccus marinus Khan et al. 2008
• Paracoccus methylovorus Timsy et al. 2022
• Paracoccus methylutens Doronina et al. 1998
• Paracoccus niistensis Dastager et al. 2012
• Paracoccus nototheniae Kämpfer et al. 2019
• Paracoccus onchidii Xu et al. 2024
• Paracoccus onubensis Gutierrez-Patricio et al. 2021
• Paracoccus pacificus Zhang et al. 2015
• Paracoccus panacisoli Nguyen et al. 2015
• Paracoccus pantotrophus (Robertson and Kuenen 1984) Rainey et al. 1999
• Paracoccus rhizosphaerae Kämpfer et al. 2012
• Paracoccus salipaludis Dong et al. 2018
• Paracoccus saliphilus Wang et al. 2009
• Paracoccus salsus Gao et al. 2022
• Paracoccus sanguinis McGinnis et al. 2015
• Paracoccus sediminicola Zhang et al. 2023
• Paracoccus sediminilitoris Wei et al. 2019
• Paracoccus sediminis Pan et al. 2014
• Paracoccus seriniphilus Pukall et al. 2003
• Paracoccus shanxieyensis Dong et al. 2023
• Paracoccus simplex Doronina et al. 2020
• Paracoccus solventivorans Siller et al. 1996
• Paracoccus sordidisoli Singh et al. 2017
• Paracoccus sphaerophysae Deng et al. 2011
• Paracoccus stylophorae Sheu et al. 2011
• Paracoccus subflavus Zhang et al. 2019
• Paracoccus sulfuroxidans Liu et al. 2006
• Paracoccus suum Heo et al. 2019
• Paracoccus tegillarcae Lee et al. 2019
• Paracoccus thiocyanatus Katayama et al. 1996
• Paracoccus tibetensis Zhu et al. 2013
• Paracoccus versutus (Harrison 1983) Katayama et al. 1996
• Paracoccus xiamenensis Lyu et al. 2020
• Paracoccus yeei corrig. Daneshvar et al. 2003
• Paracoccus zeaxanthinifaciens Berry et al. 2003

Provisional species

The following species have been published, but not validated according to the Bacteriological Code:^[1]

• "Paracoccus aquimaris" Kim and Lee 2015
• "Paracoccus beibuensis" Zheng et al. 2011
• "Paracoccus binzhouensis" Wang et al. 2021
• "Paracoccus bogoriensis" Osanjo et al. 2009
• "Paracoccus ferrooxidans" Kumaraswamy et al. 2006
• "Paracoccus gahaiensis" Zhang et al. 2016
• "Paracoccus indicus" Lin et al. 2019
• "Paracoccus jeotgali" Kim et al. 2019
• "Paracoccus maritimus" Yu et al. 2024
• "Paracoccus mutanolyticus" Buddana et al. 2016
• "Paracoccus oceanense" Fu et al. 2011
• "Paracoccus pueri" Wang et al. 2018
• "Paracoccus ravus" Yoon et al. 2019
• "Paracoccus schoinia" Takaichi et al. 2006
• "Paracoccus shandongensis" Gong et al. 2021
• "Paracoccus siganidrum" Liu et al. 2013
• "Paracoccus thiophilus" Doronina et al. 2002
• "Paracoccus zhejiangensis" Wu et al. 2013