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Genus Aquibacillus
Name: Aquibacillus Amoozegar et al. 2014
Etymology: A.qui.ba.cil’lus. L. fem. 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
Gender: masculine (stem: Aquibacill-)
Type species: Aquibacillus halophilus Amoozegar et al. 2014
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
Amoozegar MA, Bagheri M, Didari M, Mehrshad M, Schumann P, Sproer C, Sanchez-Porro C, Ventosa A. 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 2014; 64:3616-3623. 
IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:323-324.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
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🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Amphibacillaceae 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 Amphibacillaceae 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.
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Aquabacillus"; "Aquaibacillus".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Ding et al. (2023), Cho and Whang (2022). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 4; CGMCC: 3; JCM: 3; NBRC: 2; CCM: 1; CECT: 1; DSM: 1.
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🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Amphibacillaceae 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: 9
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 9
Total number of child taxa: 9
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Aquibacillus albus (Zhang et al. 2013) Amoozegar et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aquibacillus halophilus Amoozegar et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aquibacillus kalidii Wang et al. 2021 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aquibacillus koreensis (Lee et al. 2006) Amoozegar et al. 2014 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aquibacillus rhizosphaerae Ding et al. 2024 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aquibacillus salifodinae Zhang et al. 2015 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aquibacillus saliphilus Cho and Whang 2022 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aquibacillus salsiterrae Galisteo et al. 2023 validly published under the ICNP correct name Aquibacillus sediminis Lee and Whang 2019 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Amoozegar MA, Bagheri M, Didari M, Mehrshad M, Schumann P, Sproer C, Sanchez-Porro C, Ventosa A. 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 2014; 64:3616-3623.
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Record number: 517516
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