Saccharococcus

Saccharococcus is a Gram-positive, aerobic, non-spore-forming, heterotrophic, thermophilic and non-motile genus of bacteria from the family of Bacillaceae with one known species (Saccharococcus thermophilus).^{[1][3][4][5][6]}

Saccharococcus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Bacillales
Family:	Anoxybacillaceae
Genus:	Saccharococcus Nystrand 1984[1]
Type species
Saccharococcus thermophilus Nystrand 1984
Species[2]
S. caldoxylosilyticus S. thermophilus

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[2]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[7][8][9]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[10][11][12]
Saccharococcus S. thermophilus	Saccharococcus S. caldoxylosilyticus Ahmad et al. 2000 S. thermophilus Nystrand 1984

See also

• List of Bacteria genera
• List of bacterial orders