Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Bacillus infernus

Name: Bacillus infernus Boone et al. 1995

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: in.fer’nus. L. masc. adj. infernus, that which comes from below (the ground)

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CIP 104581; DSM 10277; SMCC W479; TH-23

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16S rRNA gene: U20385 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Boone DR, Liu Y, Zhao ZJ, Balkwill DL, Drake GR, Stevens TO, Aldrich HC. Bacillus infernus sp. nov., an Fe(III)- and Mn(IV)-reducing anaerobe from the deep terrestrial subsurface. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:441-448.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 45, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:881.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Boone DR, Liu Y, Zhao ZJ, Balkwill DL, Drake GR, Stevens TO, Aldrich HC. Bacillus infernus sp. nov., an Fe(III)- and Mn(IV)-reducing anaerobe from the deep terrestrial subsurface. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:441-448.

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Record number: 773737
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