Mammaliicoccus sciuri

Mammaliicoccus sciuri, previously Staphylococcus sciuri, is a Gram-positive, oxidase-positive, coagulase-negative member of the bacterial genus Mammaliicoccus consisting of clustered cocci.

sciuri and used to categorize 35 strains shown to use cellobiose, galactose, sucrose, and glycerol.

[1] In 2020, Madhaiyan et al. renamed the genus for M. sciuri from Staphylococcus to Mammaliicoccus.

[2] Nemeghaire, Stéphanie; Argudín, M. Ángeles; Feßler, Andrea T.; Hauschild, Tomasz; Schwarz, Stefan; Butaye, Patrick (16 July 2014).

"The ecological importance of the Staphylococcus sciuri species group as a reservoir for resistance and virulence genes".