Species Bacillus okhensis

Name: Bacillus okhensis Nowlan et al. 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ok.hen’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. okhensis, pertaining to Port Okha, a port of the Dwarka region in India, where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1137; DSM 23308; JCM 13040; Kh10-101

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ026060 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nowlan B, Dodia MS, Singh SP, Patel BK. Bacillus okhensis sp. nov., a halotolerant and alkalitolerant bacterium from an Indian saltpan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1073-1077.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1719-1720.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Halalkalibacter okhensis (Nowlan et al. 2006) Joshi et al. 2022

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Halalkalibacter okhensis (Nowlan et al. 2006) Joshi et al. 2022	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Alkalihalobacillus okhensis (Nowlan et al. 2006) Patel and Gupta 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- Deposits incorrectly indicated in some sources as representing the type strain of this taxon: DSM 21297; GMBE 72; JCM 15719.
- Bacillus okhensis 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.

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Nowlan B, Dodia MS, Singh SP, Patel BK. Bacillus okhensis sp. nov., a halotolerant and alkalitolerant bacterium from an Indian saltpan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1073-1077.

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Record number: 783429

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