Name: Amphibacillus cookii Pugin et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cook’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. cookii, of Cook, named in honour of Gregory Cook, to recognize his contribution to the microbiology and bioenergetics of extremophiles

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-2118; DSM 23721; JW/BP-GSL-QD

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16S rRNA gene: HM057160 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Pugin B, Blamey JM, Baxter BK, Wiegel J. Amphibacillus cookii sp. nov., a facultatively aerobic, spore-forming, moderately halophilic, alkalithermotolerant bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2090-2096.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2813-2814.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Amphibacillus Niimura et al. 1990

Assigned by: Pugin B, Blamey JM, Baxter BK, Wiegel J. Amphibacillus cookii sp. nov., a facultatively aerobic, spore-forming, moderately halophilic, alkalithermotolerant bacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2090-2096.

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Record number: 790123