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Genus Anaerobacillus
Name: Anaerobacillus Zavarzina et al. 2010
Etymology: An.ae.ro.ba.cil.lus. Gr. pref. an-, not (here: inseparable prefix); Gr. masc. n. aêr, air; L. masc. n. bacillus, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Anaerobacillus, anaerobic rod
Gender: masculine (stem: Anaerobacill-)
Type species: Anaerobacillus arseniciselenatis (Switzer Blum et al. 2001) Zavarzina et al. 2010
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Effective publication:
Zavarzina DG, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Boulygina ES, Zhilina TN. Description of Anaerobacillus alkalilacustre gen. nov., sp. nov. –Strictly anaerobic diazotrophic bacillus isolated from soda lake and transfer of Bacillus arseniciselenatis, Bacillus macyae, and Bacillus alkalidiazotrophicus to Anaerobacillus as the new combinations A. arseniciselenatis comb. nov., A. macyae comb. nov., and A. alkalidiazotrophicus comb. nov. Microbiology (English translation of Mikrobiologiia) 2009; 78:723-731. 
IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 133. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1009-1010.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Emendations:
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Borsodi et al. 2019
Borsodi AK, Aszalos JM, Bihari P, Nagy I, Schumann P, Sproer C, Kovacs AL, Boka K, Dobosy P, Ovari M, et al. Anaerobacillus alkaliphilus sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic and moderately halophilic bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:631-637.
Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 69, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1529-1530.
Notes:- ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
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Borsodi et al. 2019
Borsodi AK, Aszalos JM, Bihari P, Nagy I, Schumann P, Sproer C, Kovacs AL, Boka K, Dobosy P, Ovari M, et al. Anaerobacillus alkaliphilus sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic and moderately halophilic bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:631-637.
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Notes:
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🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Anaerobacillaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024.
Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
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🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Anaerobacillaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024.
Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
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🧕 Li et al. (2024) assigned this genus to the family Anaerobacillaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024.
Publication:
Li Y, Zhang D, Bo D, Peng D, Sun M, Zheng J. A taxonomic note on the order Caryophanales: description of 12 novel families and emended description of 21 families. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6539.
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🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980).
Publication:
Switzer Blum J, Burns Bindi A, Buzzelli J, Stolz JF, Oremland RS. Bacillus arsenicoselenatis, sp. nov., and Bacillus selenitireducens, sp. nov.: two haloalkaliphiles from Mono Lake, California that respire oxyanions of selenium and arsenic. Arch Microbiol 1998; 171:19-30.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Anaerobacilus".
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 7; VKM: 2; JCM: 1; NCAIM: 1; NCCB: 1; ATCC: 1; LMG: 1; KCTC: 1; UNIQEM: 1.
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🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Anaerobacillaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024.
Publication:
Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 7
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Anaerobacillus alkalidiazotrophicus (Sorokin et al. 2008) Zavarzina et al. 2010 validly published under the ICNP correct name Anaerobacillus alkalilacustre Zavarzina et al. 2010 inaccurate spelling misspelling Anaerobacillus alkalilacustris corrig. Zavarzina et al. 2010 validly published under the ICNP correct name Anaerobacillus alkaliphilus Borsodi et al. 2019 validly published under the ICNP correct name Anaerobacillus arseniciselenatis (Switzer Blum et al. 2001) Zavarzina et al. 2010 validly published under the ICNP correct name Anaerobacillus isosaccharinicus Bassil and Lloyd 2019 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Anaerobacillus macyae" (Santini et al. 2004) Zavarzina et al. 2009 not validly published synonym
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Parent taxon: Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Zavarzina DG, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Boulygina ES, Zhilina TN. Description of Anaerobacillus alkalilacustre gen. nov., sp. nov. –Strictly anaerobic diazotrophic bacillus isolated from soda lake and transfer of Bacillus arseniciselenatis, Bacillus macyae, and Bacillus alkalidiazotrophicus to Anaerobacillus as the new combinations A. arseniciselenatis comb. nov., A. macyae comb. nov., and A. alkalidiazotrophicus comb. nov. Microbiology (English translation of Mikrobiologiia) 2009; 78:723-731.
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