Genus Tenuibacillus

Name: Tenuibacillus Ren and Zhou 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Te.nu.i.ba.cil’lus. L. masc./fem. adj. tenuis, slender, fine, thin; L. masc. n. bacillus, a small staff, a wand; N.L. masc. n. Tenuibacillus, a slender rod

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Tenuibacill-), te-nu-i-ba-KIL-lus

Type species: Tenuibacillus multivorans Ren and Zhou 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Ren PG, Zhou PJ. Tenuibacillus multivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from saline soil in Xin-Jiang, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:95-99. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:987-991.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Gao et al. 2013 Gao XH, Gao S, Zhou Y, Guan HL, Zhang YJ, Jia M, Huang HW, Yang DX, Li WJ, Tang SK. Tenuibacillus halotolerans sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from a soil sample from a salt lake in Xinjiang, China and emended description of the genus Tenuibacillus. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2013; 103:207-215. 🇨🇳
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  - 🧍 As of 2020-09-20 this emendation was not yet included in an IJSEM List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion.

Notes:
- 🧕 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned this genus to the family Alkalibacillaceae 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. 🇨🇳
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.01063 (N = 2).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: CGMCC: 1; CCTCC: 1; KCTC: 1; NBRC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Tenuibacillus halotolerans Gao et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Tenuibacillus multivorans Ren and Zhou 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Ren PG, Zhou PJ. Tenuibacillus multivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from saline soil in Xin-Jiang, China. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:95-99. 🇨🇳

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