Name: "Anaerobacillus macyae" (Santini et al. 2004) Zavarzina et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Bacillus macyae Santini et al. 2004

Etymology: ma.cy’ae. N.L. gen. fem. n. macyae, of Macy, named after the professor Joan M. Macy, Chair of Microbiology, La Trobe University, in tribute to her research in the area of environment microbiology

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 16346; JCM 12340; JMM-4

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: AY032601 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Zavarzina DG, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Boulygina ES, Zhilina TN. Description of Anaerobacillus alkalilacustre gen. nov., sp. nov.— Strictly anaerobic diazotrophic bacillus isolated from soda lake and transfer of Bacillus arseniciselenatis, Bacillus macyae, and Bacillus alkalidiazotrophicus to Anaerobacillus as the new combinations A. arseniciselenatis comb. nov., A. macyae comb. nov., and A. alkalidiazotrophicus comb. nov. Microbiology 2009; 78:723-731.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Alkalihalobacillus macyae (Santini et al. 2004) Patel and Gupta 2020

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Pseudalkalibacillus macyae" (Santini et al. 2004) Joshi et al. 2021	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Bacillus macyae Santini et al. 2004	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Alkalihalobacillus macyae (Santini et al. 2004) Patel and Gupta 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.

Parent taxon: Anaerobacillus Zavarzina et al. 2010

Assigned by: Zavarzina DG, Tourova TP, Kolganova TV, Boulygina ES, Zhilina TN. Description of Anaerobacillus alkalilacustre gen. nov., sp. nov.— Strictly anaerobic diazotrophic bacillus isolated from soda lake and transfer of Bacillus arseniciselenatis, Bacillus macyae, and Bacillus alkalidiazotrophicus to Anaerobacillus as the new combinations A. arseniciselenatis comb. nov., A. macyae comb. nov., and A. alkalidiazotrophicus comb. nov. Microbiology 2009; 78:723-731.

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