NCBI
NCBI Taxonomy taxdump · 2026-10-23taxid: 1280
Bacteria > Bacillota > Bacilli > Caryophanales > Staphylococcaceae > Staphylococcus > Staphylococcus aureus
Staphylococcus aureus
Species in genus Staphylococcus, family Staphylococcaceae (order Caryophanales). (from NCBI Taxonomy lineage)
Warning: This taxon splits 1→many across databases. Read the panels carefully.
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Cross-database view
GTDB
Staphylococcus aureus
id: s__Staphylococcus aureus · GTDB R232
At its weakest, linked by GTDB's own NCBI species id rather than the genome's raw one.
d__Bacteria;p__Bacillota;c__Bacilli;o__Staphylococcales;f__Staphylococcaceae;g__Staphylococcus;s__Staphylococcus aureus
SILVA
Staphylococcus aureus
id: JN084549 · SILVA 138.2
Linked by name — the SILVA table we ingest carries no NCBI taxid, so the binomial is the only join.
Bacteria;Bacillota;Bacilli;Staphylococcales;Staphylococcaceae;Staphylococcus;
Greengenes2
- Staphylococcus argenteus
- Staphylococcus simiae
- +2 more — see all names below
id: Staphylococcus argenteus / Staphylococcus simiae (+2) · Greengenes2 2024.09
Linked via GTDB R220 genome accessions — the same physical genomes, not a name match.
d__Bacteria; p__Bacillota_I; c__Bacilli_A; o__Staphylococcales; f__Staphylococcaceae; g__Staphylococcus; s__Staphylococcus argenteus
Warning: Greengenes2 2024.09 places this taxon's 33 genomes in 2 species.
Name differs between releases: Name differs across Greengenes2 releases.
eHOMD
release 4.2Staphylococcus aureus
id: HMT-550 · eHOMD 4.2
Linked by NCBI taxid — eHOMD records the same id NCBI does.
Bacteria;Bacillota;Bacilli;Caryophanales;Staphylococcaceae;Staphylococcus
Only 1 genome — below the threshold for detecting a split, so “current” here means unverified, not confirmed.
Each panel shows one release. Switch a release to see how that database's answer changes — the taxon is held fixed by NCBI taxid, so every panel describes the same organism. Each panel also says how it was linked; how the databases are joined explains the routes.
Lineage by rank
| rank | NCBI | GTDB R232 | SILVA 138.2 | Greengenes2 2024.09 | eHOMD 4.2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| domain | Bacteria | Bacteria | Bacteria | Bacteria | Bacteria |
| phylum | Bacillota | Bacillota | Bacillota | first rank that differs from NCBI: Bacillota_I | Bacillota |
| class | Bacilli | Bacilli | Bacilli | Bacilli_A | Bacilli |
| order | Caryophanales | first rank that differs from NCBI: Staphylococcales | first rank that differs from NCBI: Staphylococcales | Staphylococcales | Caryophanales |
| family | Staphylococcaceae | Staphylococcaceae | Staphylococcaceae | Staphylococcaceae | Staphylococcaceae |
| genus | Staphylococcus | Staphylococcus | Staphylococcus | Staphylococcus | Staphylococcus |
| species | Staphylococcus aureus | Staphylococcus aureus | — | Staphylococcus argenteus | — |
Each column is the release its box shows. marks the first rank at which a database's name differs from NCBI's, by exact text; a suffix such as _A counts. SILVA's path and eHOMD's columns end at genus, so their species row is blank; the box above names the species. Levels a source labels outside these seven ranks are in the API's ranks and not drawn here.
Names in NCBI
from NCBI Taxonomy taxdump · 2026-10-23- Staphylococcus aureuscurrent
- Micrococcus aureussynonym
- Micrococcus pyogenessynonym
- Staphylococcus aureus subsp. anaerobiussynonym
- Staphylococcus pyogenes aureussynonym
- Staphylococcus pyogenes citreussynonym
Other names in these databases
GTDB R232
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Mammaliicoccus sciuri_A
- Staphylococcus argenteus
- Staphylococcus aureus_A
- Staphylococcus borealis
- Staphylococcus haemolyticus
- Staphylococcus singaporensis
- Staphylococcus warneri_A
SILVA 138.264 of 3,876
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus ST228
- Staphylococcus aureus subsp. anaerobius
- Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus str. Newman
- Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus DSM 20231
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1937
- Staphylococcus aureus M0439
- Staphylococcus aureus M0544
- Staphylococcus aureus M1
- Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus ST398
- Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus ST772-MRSA-V
- Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus Tager 104
- Staphylococcus aureus 08BA02176
- Staphylococcus aureus AGEN6009
- Staphylococcus aureus AMMC6074
- Staphylococcus aureus B53639
- Staphylococcus aureus COAS6004
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1067
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1082
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1083
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1086
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1161
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1174
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1276
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1295
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1311
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1370
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1490
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1698
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1800
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1810
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1811
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1842
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1885
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1936
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1954
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR1995
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR2002
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR2026
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR2072
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR2075
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3152
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3157
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3163
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3166
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3179
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3551
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3567
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3576
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3590
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3596
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3613
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3629
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3845
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3847
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3862
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR3870
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR5868
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR5881
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR5887
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR5888
- Staphylococcus aureus DAR948
- Staphylococcus aureus F50121
- Staphylococcus aureus FVRH6001
- …and 3,812 more, not listed — this taxon is a large placeholder bucket in SILVA 138.2.
Greengenes2 2024.09
- Staphylococcus argenteus
- Staphylococcus simiae
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