“…The genus Kocuria within the family Actinobacteria was first described by Stackebrandt et al (1995), and at the time of writing comprises 16 recognized species, namely Kocuria rosea, K. varians, K. kristinae (Stackebrandt et al, 1995), K. erythromyxa (Rainey et al, 1997), K. palustris, K. rhizophila (Kovacs et al, 1999), K. polaris (Reddy et al, 2003), K. marina (Kim et al, 2004), K. carniphila (Tvrzová et al, 2005), K. aegyptia (Li et al, 2006), K. himachalensis (Mayilraj et al, 2006), K. flava, K. turfanensis (Zhou et al, 2008), K. gwangalliensis (Seo et al, 2009), K. halotolerans (Tang et al, 2009) and K. koreensis (Park et al, 2010). Strains of these species have been isolated from desert soil, saline water, seawater, air, marine sediment, the rhizoplane of narrowleaved cattail, a cold desert soil of the Indian Himalayas and fermented seafood (Stackebrandt et al, 1995;Rainey et al, 1997;Kovacs et al, 1999;Reddy et al, 2003;Kim et al, 2004;Tvrzová et al, 2005;Mayilraj et al, 2006;Li et al, 2006;Zhou et al, 2008;Seo et al, 2009;Tang et al, 2009;Park et al, 2010).…”