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Species Bacillus mesophilus

Name: Bacillus mesophilus Zhou et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.so’phi.lus Gr. masc. adj. mesos, middle; Gr. masc. adj. philos, friend, loving; N.L. masc. adj. mesophilus, a mesophilic bacillus

Gender: masculine

Type strains: CCTCC AB 2105209; DSM 101000; SA4

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KU324461 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Zhou YX, Liu GH, Liu B, Chen GJ, Du ZJ. Bacillus mesophilus sp. nov., an alginate-degrading bacterium isolated from a soil sample collected from an abandoned marine solar saltern. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:937-943.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 175. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1095-1098.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Zhou YX, Liu GH, Liu B, Chen GJ, Du ZJ. Bacillus mesophilus sp. nov., an alginate-degrading bacterium isolated from a soil sample collected from an abandoned marine solar saltern. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2016; 109:937-943.

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