Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Bacillus shivajii

Name: Bacillus shivajii Kumar et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: shi.va’ji.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. shivajii, named in honour of Dr Shivaji, an eminent Indian microbiologist who has made a significant contribution to our knowledge of heterotrophic bacteria from diverse habitats including members of Bacillaceae

Gender: masculine

Type strain: AK72; JCM 32183; KCTC 33981; MTCC 12636

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16S rRNA gene: LT844662 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kumar S, Singh H, Kaur M, Kaur L, Tanuku NRS, Pinnaka AK. Bacillus shivajii sp. nov., isolated from a water sample of Sambhar salt lake, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3463-3470.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:297-298.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Kumar S, Singh H, Kaur M, Kaur L, Tanuku NRS, Pinnaka AK. Bacillus shivajii sp. nov., isolated from a water sample of Sambhar salt lake, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3463-3470.

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Record number: 797937
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