Name: Aquibacillus albus (Zhang et al. 2013) Amoozegar et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Virgibacillus albus Zhang et al. 2013

Etymology: al’bus. L. masc. adj. albus, white, referring to the white bacterial colony

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 23711; JCM 17364; YIM 93624

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JQ680032 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Amoozegar MA, Bagheri M, Didari M, Mehrshad M, Schumann P, Sproer C, Sanchez-Porro C, Ventosa A. Aquibacillus halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from a hypersaline lake, and reclassification of Virgibacillus koreensis as Aquibacillus koreensis comb. nov. and Virgibacillus albus as Aquibacillus albus comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3616-3623.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:323-324.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Virgibacillus albus Zhang et al. 2013	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.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Aquibacillus Amoozegar et al. 2014

Assigned by: Amoozegar MA, Bagheri M, Didari M, Mehrshad M, Schumann P, Sproer C, Sanchez-Porro C, Ventosa A. Aquibacillus halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from a hypersaline lake, and reclassification of Virgibacillus koreensis as Aquibacillus koreensis comb. nov. and Virgibacillus albus as Aquibacillus albus comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3616-3623.

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Record number: 792295