Sarcina (genus)
Sarcina is a genus of Gram-positive cocci bacteria in the family Clostridiaceae.[2][3] A synthesizer of microbial cellulose,[4] they have a cuboidal cell arrangement. Various members of the genus are human flora and may be found in the skin and large intestine.
The genus's type species is Sarcina ventriculi, a variety found on the surface of cereal seeds, in soil, mud, and in the stomachs of humans, rabbits, and guinea pigs.[5]
Species list
Sarcina includes approximately 67 species:[6]
- Sarcina adriatica
- Sarcina agilis
- Sarcina alba
- Sarcina alutacea
- Sarcina aurantiaca
- Sarcina aurea
- Sarcina aurescens
- Sarcina barkeri
- Sarcina bicolor
- Sarcina candida
- Sarcina carnea
- Sarcina cellaris
- Sarcina cerevisiae
- Sarcina citrea
- Sarcina citrina
- Sarcina devorans
- Sarcina equi
- Sarcina erythromyxa
- Sarcina fusca
- Sarcina gasoformans
- Sarcina gigantea
- Sarcina hansenii
- Sarcina hyalina
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- Sarcina incana
- Sarcina incarnata
- Sarcina intermedia
- Sarcina lactea
- Sarcina liquefaciens
- Sarcina litoralis
- Sarcina livida
- Sarcina lutea
- Sarcina luteola
- Sarcina marginata
- Sarcina maxima
- Sarcina meliflava
- Sarcina methanica
- Sarcina minuta
- Sarcina mirabilis
- Sarcina mobilis
- Sarcina morrhuae
- Sarcina mucosa
- Sarcina nivea
- Sarcina noctiluca
- Sarcina paludosa
- Sarcina parvulus
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- Sarcina pelagia
- Sarcina pulchra
- Sarcina pulmonum
- Sarcina purpurascens
- Sarcina radiata
- Sarcina renis
- Sarcina rosacea
- Sarcina rosea
- Sarcina rubra
- Sarcina solani
- Sarcina striata
- Sarcina subflava
- Sarcina sulfurea
- Sarcina sulphurata
- Sarcina symbiotica
- Sarcina tetragena
- Sarcina thermophila
- Sarcina ureae
- Sarcina urinae
- Sarcina velutina
- Sarcina ventriculi
- Sarcina vesicae
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