Tessaracoccus

Tessaracoccus is a Gram-positive, non-spore-forming, facultatively anaerobic and non-motile bacterial genus from the family Propionibacteriaceae.^[1][4][5]

Tessaracoccus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Actinomycetota
Class:	Actinomycetes
Order:	Propionibacteriales
Family:	Propionibacteriaceae
Genus:	Tessaracoccus Maszenan et al. 1999[1][2]
Type species
Tessaracoccus bendigoensis Maszenan et al. 1999
Species[3]
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Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[3]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[6][7][8]

120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[9][10][11]

Tessaracoccus T. antarcticus Li et al. 2016 T. rhinocerotis Li et al. 2016 T. terricola Chaudhary and Kim 2018 T. flavus Kumari et al. 2016 T. lubricantis Kämpfer et al. 2009 T. aquimaris Tak et al. 2018 T. oleiagri Cai et al. 2011 T. defluvii Srinivasan et al. 2017 T. palaemonis Kim et al. 2022 T. flavescens Lee and Lee 2008 T. bendigoensis Maszenan et al. 1999 T. coleopterorum Hyun et al. 2021 Brooklawnia cerclae Rainey et al. 2006 Arachnia rubra (Saito et al. 2018) Tindall 2019 Tessaracoccus caeni Wang et al. 2023 Tessaracoccus arenae Thongphrom et al. 2017 Tessaracoccus lapidicaptus Puente-Sánchez et al. 2014 Propionimicrobium Vaginimicrobium Propionibacterium Cutibacterium granulosum Acidipropionibacterium Cutibacterium equinum Arachnia propionica (Buchanan & Pine 1962) Pine & Georg 1969 Cutibacterium avidum Cutibacterium

Tessaracoccus T. antarcticus T. rhinocerotis Arachnia rubra "T. massiliensis" Seck et al. 2016 Arachnia propionica T. oleiagri "T. timonensis" Fall et al. 2019 T. lapidicaptus T. flavus T. palaemonis T. defluvii T. flavescens T. aquimaris T. bendigoensis T. coleopterorum

Species incertae sedis:

• "Pseudopropionibacterium massiliense" Belkacemi et al. 2019
• Tessaracoccus lacteus Tan et al. 2025
• "Tessaracoccus nasisuum" Schlattmann et al. 2018
• "Tessaracoccus profundi" Finster et al. 2009

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera