Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Bacillus methanolicus

Name: Bacillus methanolicus Arfman et al. 1992

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.tha.no’li.cus. N.L. neut. n. methanol, methanol; L. masc. adj. suff. -icus, adjectival suffix used with the sense of belonging to; N.L. masc. adj. methanolicus, relating to methanol

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 51375; DSM 16454; LMG 16799; NCIMB 13113; PB1

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16S rRNA gene: AB112727 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Arfman N, Dijkhuizen L, Kirchhof G, Ludwig W, Schleifer KH, Bulygina ES, Chumakov KM, Govorukhina NI, Trotsenko YA, White D, et al. Bacillus methanolicus sp. nov., a new species of thermotolerant, methanol-utilizing, endospore-forming bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:439-445.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 42, part 3 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:656.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Arfman N, Dijkhuizen L, Kirchhof G, Ludwig W, Schleifer KH, Bulygina ES, Chumakov KM, Govorukhina NI, Trotsenko YA, White D, et al. Bacillus methanolicus sp. nov., a new species of thermotolerant, methanol-utilizing, endospore-forming bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:439-445.

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Record number: 773774
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