Name: Amphibacillus indicireducens Hirota et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: in.di.ci.re.du’cens. L. neut. adj. indicum, indigo; L. pres. part. reducens, bringing or leading back, used to mean ‘reducing’; N.L. part. adj. indicireducens, indigo-reducing

Gender: masculine

Type strain: C40; DSM 27992; JCM 17250; NCIMB 14686

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16S rRNA gene: AB665218 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Hirota K, Aino K, Nodasaka Y, Morita N, Yumoto I. Amphibacillus indicireducens sp. nov., an alkaliphile that reduces an indigo dye. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:464-469.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1581-1583.

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: Hirota K, Aino K, Nodasaka Y, Morita N, Yumoto I. Amphibacillus indicireducens sp. nov., an alkaliphile that reduces an indigo dye. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:464-469.

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Record number: 790477