Species Bacillus glennii

Name: Bacillus glennii Seuylemezian et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: glen’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. glennii, named after John Glenn, a NASA astronaut who was the first American to orbit the Earth

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … GLEN-ni-i, masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-2860; DSM 105192; V44-8

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16S rRNA gene: KT720324 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Seuylemezian A, Ott L, Wolf S, Fragante J, Yip O, Pukall R, Schumann P, Vaishampayan P. Bacillus glennii sp. nov. and Bacillus saganii sp. nov., isolated from the vehicle assembly building at Kennedy Space Center where the Viking spacecraft were assembled. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:71-76. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2167-2173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Correct name: Peribacillus glennii (Seuylemezian et al. 2020) Gupta et al. 2020

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Peribacillus glennii (Seuylemezian et al. 2020) Gupta et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- ❗ Bacillus glennii 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.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙅 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.

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Seuylemezian A, Ott L, Wolf S, Fragante J, Yip O, Pukall R, Schumann P, Vaishampayan P. Bacillus glennii sp. nov. and Bacillus saganii sp. nov., isolated from the vehicle assembly building at Kennedy Space Center where the Viking spacecraft were assembled. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:71-76. 🇺🇸

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Record number: 5714

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Species Bacillus glennii