Name: Lysinibacillus Ahmed et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ly.si.ni.ba.cil’lus. N.L. fem. n. lysina, lysine; L. masc. n. bacillus, a small staff or rod; N.L. masc. n. Lysinibacillus, lysine bacillus, referring to the presence of the Lys-Asp type of peptidoglycan in the cell wall

Gender: masculine (stem: Lysinibacill-)

Type species: Lysinibacillus boronitolerans Ahmed et al. 2007

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ahmed I, Yokota A, Yamazoe A, Fujiwara T. Proposal of Lysinibacillus boronitolerans gen. nov. sp. nov., and transfer of Bacillus fusiformis to Lysinibacillus fusiformis comb. nov. and Bacillus sphaericus to Lysinibacillus sphaericus comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1117-1125.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1675-1676.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Jung et al. 2012 Jung MY, Kim JS, Paek WK, Styrak I, Park IS, Sin Y, Paek J, Park KA, Kim H, Kim HL, et al. Description of Lysinibacillus sinduriensis sp. nov., and transfer of Bacillus massiliensis and Bacillus odysseyi to the genus Lysinibacillus as Lysinibacillus massiliensis comb. nov. and Lysinibacillus odysseyi comb. nov. with emended description of the genus Lysinibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2347-2355. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:6-7.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 3 new species in the genus.
  • Zhao et al. 2015 Zhao F, Feng Y, Chen R, Zhang J, Lin X. Lysinibacillus alkaliphilus sp. nov., an extremely alkaliphilic bacterium, and emended description of genus Lysinibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2426-2431. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3768-3770.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Gupta and Patel 2020 Gupta RS, Patel S. Robust Demarcation of the Family Caryophanaceae (Planococcaceae) and Its Different Genera Including Three Novel Genera Based on Phylogenomics and Highly Specific Molecular Signatures. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2821. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
    Notes:
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 6 species from the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Zhao et al. (2015) assigned this genus to the family Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Zhao F, Feng Y, Chen R, Zhang J, Lin X. Lysinibacillus alkaliphilus sp. nov., an extremely alkaliphilic bacterium, and emended description of genus Lysinibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2426-2431.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Lisinibacillus"; "Lysinbacillus"; "Lysinibaccilus"; "Lysisnibacillus".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Hayat et al. (2014). 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.08960 (N = 7).
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 22; KCTC: 16; JCM: 9; NBRC: 9; CCUG: 8; CCTCC: 8; LMG: 7; NRRL: 6; ATCC: 5; CGMCC: 5.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 22
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 33
Total number of child taxa: 43

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Lysinibacillus acetophenoni Azmatunnisa et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Lysinibacillus agricola" Lu and Liu 2021	not validly published	preferred name
    Lysinibacillus alkaliphilus Zhao et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus alkalisoli Sun et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus antri Narsing Rao et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus boronitolerans Ahmed et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Lysinibacillus canaveralius" Schultz et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Lysinibacillus capsici Burkett-Cadena et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus cavernae Kan et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus chungkukjangi Kim et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Lysinibacillus composti Hayat et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus contaminans Kämpfer et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus cresolivorans Ren et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus endophyticus Yu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Lysinibacillus fluoroglycofenilyticus" Cheng et al. 2015	not validly published	synonym
    Lysinibacillus fusiformis (Priest et al. 1989 ex Meyer and Gottheil 1901) Ahmed et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus halotolerans Kong et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus irui Akintayo et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Lysinibacillus jejuensis" Kim et al. 2013	not validly published	synonym
    Lysinibacillus louembei Ouoba et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus macroides (ex Bennett and Canale-Parola 1965) Coorevits et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus manganicus Liu et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Lysinibacillus mangiferahumi Yang et al. 2012	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Lysinibacillus mangiferihumi corrig. Yang et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Lysinibacillus massiliensis (Glazunova et al. 2006) Jung et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Lysinibacillus meyeri Seiler et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Lysinibacillus odysseyi (La Duc et al. 2004) Jung et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus pakistanensis Ahmed et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus parviboronicapiens Miwa et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Lysinibacillus phoenicis" Schultz et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Lysinibacillus pinottii Dunlap et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus piscis Kanbe et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Lysinibacillus saudimassiliensis" Papadioti et al. 2017	not validly published	synonym
    Lysinibacillus sinduriensis Jung et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Lysinibacillus sphaericus (Meyer and Neide 1904) Ahmed et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Lysinibacillus tabacifolii Duan et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Lysinibacillus telephonicus Rahi et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Lysinibacillus timonensis" Ndiaye et al. 2019	not validly published	preferred name
    Lysinibacillus varians Zhu et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Lysinibacillus xylanilyticus Lee et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Lysinibacillus xyleni" Begum et al. 2016	not validly published	synonym
    Lysinibacillus yapensis Yu et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Lysinibacillus zambalensis" Aja et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Caryophanaceae Peshkoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Gupta RS, Patel S. Robust Demarcation of the Family Caryophanaceae (Planococcaceae) and Its Different Genera Including Three Novel Genera Based on Phylogenomics and Highly Specific Molecular Signatures. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2821.

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