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Family Guptibacillaceae
Name: Guptibacillaceae Bello et al. 2025
Etymology: Gup.ti.ba.cil.la.ce’ae. N.L. masc. n. Guptibacillus, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Guptibacillaceae, family of the genus Guptibacillus
Type genus: Guptibacillus Bello et al. 2025
Valid publication:
Bello S, Rudra B, Schellhorn HE. Phylogenomic studies and molecular markers clarifying the evolutionary relationships and classification of Pseudalkalibacillus species: proposal for the family Guptibacillaceae fam. nov. harbouring the genera Guptibacillus gen. nov. and Exobacillus gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6757. 
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
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🧒 Bello et al. (2025) assigned the genus Exobacillus Bello et al. 2025 to this family.
Publication:
Bello S, Rudra B, Schellhorn HE. Phylogenomic studies and molecular markers clarifying the evolutionary relationships and classification of Pseudalkalibacillus species: proposal for the family Guptibacillaceae fam. nov. harbouring the genera Guptibacillus gen. nov. and Exobacillus gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6757.
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🧒 Bello et al. (2025) assigned the genus Guptibacillus Bello et al. 2025 to this family.
Publication:
Bello S, Rudra B, Schellhorn HE. Phylogenomic studies and molecular markers clarifying the evolutionary relationships and classification of Pseudalkalibacillus species: proposal for the family Guptibacillaceae fam. nov. harbouring the genera Guptibacillus gen. nov. and Exobacillus gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6757.
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🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980).
Publication:
Joshi A, Thite S, Karodi P, Joseph N, Lodha T. Alkalihalobacterium elongatum gen. nov. sp. nov.: An Antibiotic-Producing Bacterium Isolated From Lonar Lake and Reclassification of the Genus Alkalihalobacillus Into Seven Novel Genera. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:722369.
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🧒 Bello et al. (2025) assigned the genus Exobacillus Bello et al. 2025 to this family.
Publication:
Bello S, Rudra B, Schellhorn HE. Phylogenomic studies and molecular markers clarifying the evolutionary relationships and classification of Pseudalkalibacillus species: proposal for the family Guptibacillaceae fam. nov. harbouring the genera Guptibacillus gen. nov. and Exobacillus gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6757.
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Record number: 65201
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