Genus Ornithinibacillus

Name: Ornithinibacillus Mayr et al. 2006

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Or’ni.thi.ni.ba.cil’lus. N.L. fem. n. ornithina, ornithine; L. masc. n. bacillus, a small staff, a wand; N.L. masc. n. Ornithinibacillus, a rod with ornithine

Gender: masculine (stem: Ornithinibacill-)

Type species: Ornithinibacillus bavariensis Mayr et al. 2006

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Mayr R, Busse HJ, Worliczek HL, Ehling-Schulz M, Scherer S. Ornithinibacillus gen. nov., with the species Ornithinibacillus bavariensis sp. nov. and Ornithinibacillus californiensis sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1383-1389.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2029-2030.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Lu et al. 2015 Lu Q, Yuan H, Li J, Zhao Y, Zhou S. Ornithinibacillus composti sp. nov., isolated from sludge compost and emended description of the genus Ornithinibacillus. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:813-819. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 22. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:2028-2029.
  Notes:
  - 😢 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. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details.
- Qu et al. 2019 Qu JH, Fu YH, Yue YF, Li HF. Description of Ornithinibacillus gellani sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from lake sediment, and emended description of the genus Ornithinibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:2632-2637. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 69, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3663-3665.
  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: "Orthinibacillus".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Li et al. (2020), Lu et al. (2015). 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: 6; CGMCC: 5; DSM: 5; CCTCC: 3; JCM: 2; CCM: 2; GDMCC: 1; KACC: 1; IBRC: 1; NBRC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 10
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 10
Total number of child taxa: 14

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Ornithinibacillus bavariensis Mayr et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Ornithinibacillus californiensis Mayr et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Ornithinibacillus caprae Li et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Ornithinibacillus composti" Lu et al. 2015	not validly published	preferred name
Ornithinibacillus contaminans Kämpfer et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Ornithinibacillus gellani Qu et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Ornithinibacillus halophilus Bagheri et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Ornithinibacillus halotolerans Lu et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Ornithinibacillus heyuanensis Wu et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Ornithinibacillus hominis" Liu et al. 2021	not validly published	preferred name
"Ornithinibacillus massiliensis" Pham et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name
Ornithinibacillus salinisoli Gan et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Ornithinibacillus scapharcae Shin et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Ornithinibacillus xuwenensis" Li et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Lu Q, Yuan H, Li J, Zhao Y, Zhou S. Ornithinibacillus composti sp. nov., isolated from sludge compost and emended description of the genus Ornithinibacillus. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:813-819.

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Genus Ornithinibacillus