Species Bacillus polymyxa

Name: Bacillus polymyxa (Prazmowski 1880) Macé 1889 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Clostridium polymyxa" Prazmowski 1880

Etymology: Gr. pref. polu, many; Gr. fem. n. [μύξα] myxa, slime or mucus; N.L. n. polymyxa, much slime

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 842; CCUG 7426; CFBP 4258; CIP 66.22; DSM 36; HAMBI 1897; HAMBI 635; IAM 13419T; IFO 15309; JCM 2507; LMG 13294; NBRC 15309; NCCB 24016; NCTC 10343; NRRL B-4317; VKM B-5; VKM B-514

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Original publication: Macé E. Traité Pratique de Bactériologie, 1st ed. J.B. Ballière & Sons, Paris, 1889.

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: Paenibacillus polymyxa (Prazmowski 1880) Ash et al. 1994

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Paenibacillus polymyxa (Prazmowski 1880) Ash et al. 1994	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Paenibacillus jamilae Aguilera et al. 2001	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
"Clostridium polymyxa" Prazmowski 1880	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

Notes:
- According to Kwak et al. (2020), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Paenibacillus jamilae Aguilera et al. 2001. Publication: Kwak MJ, Choi SB, Ha SM, Kim EH, Kim BY, Chun J. Genome-based reclassification of Paenibacillus jamilae Aguilera et al. 2001 as a later heterotypic synonym of Paenibacillus polymyxa (Prazmowski 1880) Ash et al. 1994. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3134-3138.
- Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4421-4424.
- Bacillus polymyxa is the correct name if this species is regarded as a separate species within a separate genus Bacillus.

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Macé E. Traité Pratique de Bactériologie, 1st ed. J.B. Ballière & Sons, Paris, 1889.

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