Genus Lentibacillus

Name: Lentibacillus Yoon et al. 2002

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Len.ti.ba.cil’lus. L. masc. adj. lentus, slow; L. masc. n. bacillus, small rod; N.L. masc. n. Lentibacillus, slow bacillus, i.e. slowly growing bacillus

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Lentibacill-), len-ti-ba-KIL-lus

Type species: Lentibacillus salicampi Yoon et al. 2002

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yoon JH, Kang KH, Park YH. Lentibacillus salicampi gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt field in Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:2043-2048. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:375-376.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Jeon et al. 2005 Jeon CO, Lim JM, Lee JC, Lee GS, Lee JM, Xu LH, Jiang CL, Kim CJ. Lentibacillus salarius sp. nov., isolated from saline sediment in China, and emended description of the genus Lentibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1339-1343. 🇰🇷 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1747-1749.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
- Sun et al. 2016 Sun P, Gao JL, Mao XJ, Zhao XH, Sun JG, Lu M. Lentibacillus populi sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, endophytic bacterium isolated from a poplar tree, and emended description of the genus Lentibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5281-5287. 🇨🇳 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:525-528.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🧕 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. 🇦🇺
- 🧕 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: "Lontibacillus".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Oh et al. (2020), Lee et al. (2008), Pakdeeto et al. (2007). 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 terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. The usage of the term "coherent taxon" (or equivalent) is cautioned against. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details. Publication: Göker M. What can genome analysis offer for bacteria? In: Bridge P, Smith D, Stackebrandt E (eds), Trends in the systematics of bacteria and fungi, CAB International, Wallingford, 2021, p. 255-281. 🇬🇧
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 13; JCM: 12; KCTC: 7; TISTR: 4; KACC: 3; CGMCC: 3; BH: 3; MCCC: 2; CECT: 1; LMG: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 21
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 21
Total number of child taxa: 24

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
"Lentibacillus alimentarius" Sundararaman et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name
Lentibacillus amyloliquefaciens Wang et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus cibarius Oh et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus daqui Liang et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus garicola Jung et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus halodurans Yuan et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus halophilus Tanasupawat et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus jeotgali Jung et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus juripiscarius Namwong et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus kapialis Pakdeeto et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus kimchii Oh et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus lacisalsi Lim et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus lipolyticus Booncharoen et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Lentibacillus massiliensis" Senghor et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name
"Lentibacillus panjinensis" Li et al. 2020	not validly published	preferred name
Lentibacillus persicus Sánchez-Porro et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus populi Sun et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus salarius Jeon et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus salicampi Yoon et al. 2002	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus salinarum Lee et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus saliphilus Wang et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus salis Lee et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus sediminis Guo et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Lentibacillus songyuanensis Wang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Jung WY, Lee SH, Jin HM, Jeon CO. Lentibacillus garicola sp. nov., isolated from myeolchi-aekjeot, a Korean fermented anchovy sauce. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:1569-1576. 🇰🇷

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