Name: Anoxybacillus Pikuta et al. 2000
Etymology: A.no.xy.ba.cil.lus. Gr. pref. an-, without (here: inseparable prefix); Gr. masc. adj. oxys, acid or sour and in combined words indicating oxygen; L. masc. n. bacillus, small rod; N.L. masc. n. Anoxybacillus, small rod that lives without oxygen
Gender: masculine (stem: Anoxybacill-)
Type species: Anoxybacillus pushchinoensis corrig. Pikuta et al. 2000
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Valid publication:
Pikuta E, Lysenko A, Chuvilskaya N, Mendrock U, Hippe H, Suzina N, Nikitin D, Osipov G, Laurinavichius K. Anoxybacillus pushchinensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, alkaliphilic, moderately thermophilic bacterium from manure, and description of Anoxybacillus flavitherms comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:2109-2117.
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 50, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:267-268.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 24
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 24
Total number of child taxa: 27
Parent taxon: Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by: Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Class I. Bacilli class nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 19-20.
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Record number: 515142