Species Bacillus psychrotolerans

Name: Bacillus psychrotolerans Abd El-Rahman et al. 2002

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: psy.chro.to’le.rans. Gr. masc. adj. psychros, cold; L. pres. part. tolerans, tolerating; N.L. masc. part. adj. psychrotolerans, cold-tolerating

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … psy-k^hro-TO-le-rans, masculine

Type strain: 3H1; CIP 107792; DSM 11706; NCIMB 13838

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ277983 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Abd El-Rahman HA, Fritze D, Sproer C, Claus D. Two novel psychrotolerant species, Bacillus psychrotolerans sp. nov. and Bacillus psychrodurans sp. nov., which contain ornithine in their cell walls. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:2127-2133. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 52, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:375-376.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym (and not recommended for medical use)

Correct name: Psychrobacillus psychrotolerans (Abd El-Rahman et al. 2002) Krishnamurthi et al. 2011

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Psychrobacillus psychrotolerans (Abd El-Rahman et al. 2002) Krishnamurthi et al. 2011	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- ❗ Bacillus psychrotolerans is the correct name instead 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 risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙅 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as a synonym of the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of other species in the genus.
- 🧍 The distinct name Bacillus psychrodurans from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Abd El-Rahman HA, Fritze D, Sproer C, Claus D. Two novel psychrotolerant species, Bacillus psychrotolerans sp. nov. and Bacillus psychrodurans sp. nov., which contain ornithine in their cell walls. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:2127-2133. 🇩🇪

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Record number: 773817

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Species Bacillus psychrotolerans