Genus Mesobacillus

Name: Mesobacillus Patel and Gupta 2020

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Me.so.ba.cil’lus. Gr. masc. adj. mesos, middle; L. masc. n. bacillus, a small staff or rod and Bacillus, a bacterial genus; N.L. masc. n. Mesobacillus, in between other Bacillus

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Mesobacill-), me-so-ba-KIL-lus

Type species: Mesobacillus jeotgali (Yoon et al. 2001) Patel and Gupta 2020

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Patel S, Gupta RS. A phylogenomic and comparative genomic framework for resolving the polyphyly of the genus Bacillus: Proposal for six new genera of Bacillus species, Peribacillus gen. nov., Cytobacillus gen. nov., Mesobacillus gen. nov., Neobacillus gen. nov., Metabacillus gen. nov. and Alkalihalobacillus gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:406-438. 🇨🇦

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2167-2173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Patel and Gupta (2020) assigned this genus to the family Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Patel S, Gupta RS. A phylogenomic and comparative genomic framework for resolving the polyphyly of the genus Bacillus: Proposal for six new genera of Bacillus species, Peribacillus gen. nov., Cytobacillus gen. nov., Mesobacillus gen. nov., Neobacillus gen. nov., Metabacillus gen. nov. and Alkalihalobacillus gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:406-438. 🇨🇦
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Yoon JH, Kang SS, Lee KC, Kho YH, Choi SH, Kang KH, Park YH. Bacillus jeotgali sp. nov., isolated from jeotgal, Korean traditional fermented seafood. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1087-1092. 🇰🇷
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Mesoacillus"; "Nesobacillus".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 10; JCM: 6; LMG: 3; CIP: 3; CECT: 2; ATCC: 2; MTCC: 2; NBRC: 1; KCCM: 1; CCM: 1.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Metabacillus from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 14
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 14
Total number of child taxa: 16

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Mesobacillus aurantius" Rai et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name
    Mesobacillus boroniphilus (Ahmed et al. 2007) Patel and Gupta 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mesobacillus campisalis (Kumar et al. 2015) Patel and Gupta 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mesobacillus fermenti (Hirota et al. 2018) Gupta et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mesobacillus foraminis (Tiago et al. 2006) Patel and Gupta 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mesobacillus harenae Zhang et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mesobacillus jeotgali (Yoon et al. 2001) Patel and Gupta 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mesobacillus maritimus (Pal et al. 2017) Patel and Gupta 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Mesobacillus mediterraneensis" Patel and Gupta 2020	not validly published	preferred name
    Mesobacillus persicus (Didari et al. 2013) Patel and Gupta 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mesobacillus rigiliprofundi (Sylvan et al. 2015) Patel and Gupta 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mesobacillus selenatarsenatis (Yamamura et al. 2007) Patel and Gupta 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mesobacillus stamsii (Müller et al. 2016) Patel and Gupta 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mesobacillus subterraneus (Kanso et al. 2002) Patel and Gupta 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mesobacillus thioparans (Pérez-Ibarra et al. 2007) Patel and Gupta 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Mesobacillus zeae (Kämpfer et al. 2017) Patel and Gupta 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Cytobacillaceae Li et al. 2024

Assigned by: 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. 🇨🇳

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