Species Bacillus shackletonii

Name: Bacillus shackletonii Logan et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: shack.le.to’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. shackletonii, of Shackleton, referring to RRS Shackleton, the ship used by the first British scientific expedition to visit Candlemas Island, the vessel being named in honour of the celebrated Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … s͡hakk-le-TO-ni-i, masculine

Type strain: CIP 107762; DSM 18868; isolate SSI024; KCTC 13003; LMG 18435; Logan collection number B1724; SSI 24

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16S rRNA gene: AJ250318 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Logan NA, Lebbe L, Verhelst A, Goris J, Forsyth G, Rodriguez-Diaz M, Heyndrickx M, De Vos P. Bacillus shackletonii sp. nov., from volcanic soil on Candlemas Island, South Sandwich archipelago. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:373-376. 🇬🇧

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1007-1009.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Correct name: Heyndrickxia shackletonii (Logan et al. 2004) Narsing Rao et al. 2023

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Heyndrickxia shackletonii (Logan et al. 2004) Narsing Rao et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Margalitia shackletonii (Logan et al. 2004) Gupta et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- ❗ Bacillus shackletonii 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 12 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.

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Logan NA, Lebbe L, Verhelst A, Goris J, Forsyth G, Rodriguez-Diaz M, Heyndrickx M, De Vos P. Bacillus shackletonii sp. nov., from volcanic soil on Candlemas Island, South Sandwich archipelago. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:373-376. 🇬🇧

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Record number: 783433

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Species Bacillus shackletonii