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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Genus Tigheibacillus

Name: Tigheibacillus Miliotis et al. 2024

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ti.ghe.i.ba.cil’lus. L. masc. n. bacillus, a small rod; N.L. masc. n. Tigheibacillus, a rod named to honor Scott Tighe, an American microbiologist, for his contribution in all areas of microbiology and extremophiles

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Tigheibacill-), ti-ghe-i-ba-KIL-lus

Type species: Tigheibacillus jepli Miliotis et al. 2024

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Effective publication: Miliotis G, Sengupta P, Hameed A, Chuvochina M, McDonagh F, Simpson AC, Parker CW, Singh NK, Rekha PD, Morris D, et al. Novel spore-forming species exhibiting intrinsic resistance to third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins and description of Tigheibacillus jepli gen. nov., sp. nov. mBio 2024; 15:e0018124. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 219. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6452.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2

Parent taxon: Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)

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Record number: 45657
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