what species is sarcina lutea
Hi Jill -. Sarcina lutea and Micrococcus luteus are one and the same. The designation S. lutea was used in the late 1800s. Sarcina refers to the characteristic clustering of this species of bacteria into tetrads or dumbell shapes.Lutea means yellow, given the big-bird yellow pigment that colonies of M. luteus produce.The name Micrococcus was used later, to represent the fact that the size of these bacteria is smaller than that of their cousins, namely most Staphylococcus and Streptococcus species. -L.utea means yellow, given the big-bird yellow pigment that colonies of M. luteus produce. The name Micrococcus was used later, to represent the fact that the size of these bacteria is smaller than that of their cousins, namely most Staphylococcus and Streptococcus species. -L.