Genus Aquibacillus
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 4
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Aquibacillus Amoozegar et al. 2014, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Aquibacillus halophilus Amoozegar et al. 2014.
Etymology: L. n. aqua water; L. masc. n. bacillus, a rod and also a bacterial genus name (Bacillus); N.L. masc. n. Aquibacillus, a rod belonging to the family Bacillaceae and isolated from water.
Valid publication: AMOOZEGAR, M. A., BAGHERI, M., DIDARI, M., MEHRSHAD, M., SCHUMANN, P., SPRÖER, C., SÁNCHEZ-PORRO, C. and VENTOSA, A. 2014. Aquibacillus halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from a hypersaline lake, and reclassification of Virgibacillus koreensis as Aquibacillus koreensis comb. nov. and Virgibacillus albus as Aquibacillus albus comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 3616-3623.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Aquibacillus albus Amoozegar et al. 2014, comb. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) YIM 93624=DSM 23711=IBRC-M 10798=JCM 17364.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: JQ680032.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: -.
Basonym: ¤ Virgibacillus albus Zhang et al. 2012
Etymology: L. masc. adj. albus white, referring to the white bacterial colony.
Source: Environmental.
Valid publication: AMOOZEGAR, M. A., BAGHERI, M., DIDARI, M., MEHRSHAD, M., SCHUMANN, P., SPRÖER, C., SÁNCHEZ-PORRO, C. and VENTOSA, A. 2014. Aquibacillus halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from a hypersaline lake, and reclassification of Virgibacillus koreensis as Aquibacillus koreensis comb. nov. and Virgibacillus albus as Aquibacillus albus comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 3616-3623.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Aquibacillus halophilus Amoozegar et al. 2014, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) B6B=IBRC-M 10775=KCTC 13828.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: HQ433456.
Etymology: Gr. n. hals halos, salt; Gr. adj. philos, loving; N.L. masc. adj. halophilus, salt-loving.
Source: Environmental.
Valid publication: AMOOZEGAR, M. A., BAGHERI, M., DIDARI, M., MEHRSHAD, M., SCHUMANN, P., SPRÖER, C., SÁNCHEZ-PORRO, C. and VENTOSA, A. 2014. Aquibacillus halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from a hypersaline lake, and reclassification of Virgibacillus koreensis as Aquibacillus koreensis comb. nov. and Virgibacillus albus as Aquibacillus albus comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 3616-3623.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Aquibacillus koreensis Amoozegar et al. 2014, comb. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) BH30097=KCTC 3823=IBRC-M 10657=JCM 12387.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AY616012.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: -.
Basonym: ¤ Virgibacillus koreensis Lee et al. 2006
Etymology: N.L. masc. adj. koreensis, for Korea, where the type strain was isolated.
Source: Environmental.
Valid publication: AMOOZEGAR, M. A., BAGHERI, M., DIDARI, M., MEHRSHAD, M., SCHUMANN, P., SPRÖER, C., SÁNCHEZ-PORRO, C. and VENTOSA, A. 2014. Aquibacillus halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from a hypersaline lake, and reclassification of Virgibacillus koreensis as Aquibacillus koreensis comb. nov. and Virgibacillus albus as Aquibacillus albus comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 64, 3616-3623.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Aquibacillus salifodinae Zhang et al. 2015, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) WSY08-1=CGMCC 1.12849=JCM 19761.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AB859945.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: -.
Etymology: -.
Source: Environmental.
Valid publication: Validation List no. 163. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 65 (2015), 1105-1111.
Validation List Online
Effective publication: ZHANG, W.-Y., HU, J., ZHANG, X.-Q., ZHU, X.-F. and WU, M. 2015. Aquibacillus salifodinae sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from a salt mine in Xinjiang province, China. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 107, 367-374.
Effective publication Online