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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Desertibacillus

Name: Desertibacillus Bhatt et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: De.ser.ti.ba.cil’lus. L. neut. n. desertum, desert (can be noun or adjective); L. masc. n. Bacillus, a bacterial genus; N.L. masc. n. Desertibacillus, a Bacillus-like organism isolated from desert

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Desertibacill-), de-ser-ti-ba-KIL-lus

Type species: Desertibacillus haloalkaliphilus Bhatt et al. 2017

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bhatt HB, Azmatunnisa Begum M, Chintalapati S, Chintalapati VR, Singh SP. Desertibacillus haloalkaliphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a saline desert. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4435-4442. 🇮🇳

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:471-473.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

Parent taxon: Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Bhatt HB, Azmatunnisa Begum M, Chintalapati S, Chintalapati VR, Singh SP. Desertibacillus haloalkaliphilus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a saline desert. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4435-4442. 🇮🇳

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Record number: 519305
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