Species Bacillus megaterium

Name: Bacillus megaterium de Bary 1884 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.ga.te’ri.um. Gr. masc. adj. megas, large; Gr. neut. n. teras, monster, beast; N.L. neut. n. megaterium, big beast (nominative in apposition)

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 14581; BCRC 10608; CCM 2007; CCRC 10608; CCUG 1817; CIP 66.20; DSM 32; HAMBI 2018; IAM 13418; IFO 15308; JCM 2506; KCTC 3007; LMG 7127; NBIMCC 8947; NBRC 15308; NCCB 75016; NCIB 9376; NCIMB 9376; NCTC 10342; NRIC 1710; NRRL B-14308; VKM B-512

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16S rRNA gene: KJ569088 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: De Bary A. Vergleichende Morphologie und Biologie der Pilze, Mycetozoen und Bacterien. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1884.

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

Correct name: Priestia megaterium (de Bary 1884) Gupta et al. 2020

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Priestia megaterium (de Bary 1884) Gupta et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- Narsing Rao et al. 2019 Narsing Rao MP, Dong ZY, Liu GH, Li L, Xiao M, Li WJ. Reclassification of Bacillus aryabhattai Shivaji et al. 2009 as a later heterotypic synonym of Bacillus megaterium de Bary 1884 (Approved Lists 1980). FEMS Microbiol Lett 2019; 366:fnz258. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
  Notes:
  - Emendation accompanied by a proposal regarding the synonymy of the species.

Notes:
- According to Gupta et al. (2020), this species is not an earlier heterotypic synonym of Bacillus aryabhattai Shivaji et al. 2009. Publication: Gupta RS, Patel S, Saini N, Chen S. Robust demarcation of 17 distinct Bacillus species clades, proposed as novel Bacillaceae genera, by phylogenomics and comparative genomic analyses: description of Robertmurraya kyonggiensis sp. nov. and proposal for an emended genus Bacillus limiting it only to the members of the Subtilis and Cereus clades of species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5753-5798.
- According to Gupta et al. (2020), this species is not an earlier heterotypic synonym of Priestia aryabhattai (Shivaji et al. 2009) Gupta et al. 2020. Publication: Gupta RS, Patel S, Saini N, Chen S. Robust demarcation of 17 distinct Bacillus species clades, proposed as novel Bacillaceae genera, by phylogenomics and comparative genomic analyses: description of Robertmurraya kyonggiensis sp. nov. and proposal for an emended genus Bacillus limiting it only to the members of the Subtilis and Cereus clades of species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5753-5798.
- According to Narsing-Rao et al. (2019), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Bacillus aryabhattai Shivaji et al. 2009. Publication: Narsing Rao MP, Dong ZY, Liu GH, Li L, Xiao M, Li WJ. Reclassification of Bacillus aryabhattai Shivaji et al. 2009 as a later heterotypic synonym of Bacillus megaterium de Bary 1884 (Approved Lists 1980). FEMS Microbiol Lett 2019; 366:fnz258.
- According to Narsing-Rao et al. (2019), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Priestia aryabhattai (Shivaji et al. 2009) Gupta et al. 2020. Publication: Narsing Rao MP, Dong ZY, Liu GH, Li L, Xiao M, Li WJ. Reclassification of Bacillus aryabhattai Shivaji et al. 2009 as a later heterotypic synonym of Bacillus megaterium de Bary 1884 (Approved Lists 1980). FEMS Microbiol Lett 2019; 366:fnz258.
- Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
- Bacillus megaterium is the correct name 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 spelling of the specific epithet megaterium in Bacillus megaterium de Bary 1884 (Approved Lists 1980) is to be preferred to the spelling megatherium (Judicial Opinion 1). Publication: Judicial Commission. Judicial Opinion No. 1. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1951; 1:35-36.
- The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 1, note = "+".

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: De Bary A. Vergleichende Morphologie und Biologie der Pilze, Mycetozoen und Bacterien. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1884.

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