Species Bacillus badius

Name: Bacillus badius Batchelor 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ba’di.us. L. masc. adj. badius, chestnut brown

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ba-KIL-lus BA-di-us, masculine

Type strain: ATCC 14574; CCM 2113; CCUG 7412; CECT 17; CIP 58.52; DSM 23; HAMBI 1885; IFO 15713; JCM 12228; LMG 7122; NBIMCC 2210; NCIB 9364; NCIMB 9364; NCTC 10333; NRRL NRS-663; NRS 663; VKM B-496

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16S rRNA gene: X77790 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Batchelor MD. Aerobic Spore-Bearing Bacteria in the Intestinal Tract of Children. J Bacteriol 1919; 4:23-34.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym (and not recommended for medical use)

Correct name: Pseudobacillus badius (Batchelor 1919) Verma et al. 2024

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Pseudobacillus badius (Batchelor 1919) Verma et al. 2024	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Bacillus encimensis Dastager et al. 2015	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- ⏰ According to Verma et al. (2017), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Bacillus encimensis Dastager et al. 2015. Publication: Verma A, Pal Y, Khatri I, Ojha AK, Gruber-Vodicka H, Schumann P, Dastager S, Subramanian S, Mayilraj S, Krishnamurthi S. Examination into the taxonomic position of Bacillus thermotolerans Yang et al., 2013, proposal for its reclassification into a new genus and species Quasibacillus thermotolerans gen. nov., comb. nov. and reclassification of B. encimensis Dastager et al., 2015 as a later heterotypic synonym of B. badius. Syst Appl Microbiol 2017; 40:411-422. 🇮🇳
- 🏢 Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 27. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:7-8.
- ❗ Bacillus badius is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Bacillus.
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 49 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
- 🙅 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as a synonym of the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of other species in the genus.
- 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), no evidence of human infection was found for this species. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology (Reading) 2022; 168:0. 🇬🇧

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Batchelor MD. Aerobic Spore-Bearing Bacteria in the Intestinal Tract of Children. J Bacteriol 1919; 4:23-34.

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Species Bacillus badius