Species Bacillus sphaericus

Name: Bacillus sphaericus Meyer and Neide 1904 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: sphae’ri.cus. L. masc. adj. sphaericus, spherical

Pronunciation, gender: … SP^HA͡E-ri-kus, masculine

Type strain: ATCC 14577; B 23268; BCRC 12825; CCM 2120; CCRC 12825; CCUG 7428; CIP 65.30; DSM 28; HAMBI 1938; IAM 13420; IFO 15095; JCM 2502; LMG 7134; NBRC 15095; NCCB 75018; NCIB 9370; NCIMB 9370; NCTC 10338; NRRL B-23268; VKM B-509

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16S rRNA gene: AJ310084 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Neide E. Botanische Beschreibung einiger sporenbildenden Bakterien. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene. Abteilung II 1904; 12:337-352.

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 (and not recommended for medical use)

Correct name: Lysinibacillus sphaericus (Meyer and Neide 1904) Ahmed et al. 2007

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Lysinibacillus sphaericus (Meyer and Neide 1904) Ahmed et al. 2007	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Lysinibacillus mangiferihumi corrig. Yang et al. 2012	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Lysinibacillus mangiferahumi Yang et al. 2012	heterotypic synonym, inaccurate spelling
Lysinibacillus varians Zhu et al. 2014	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
Lysinibacillus tabacifolii Duan et al. 2014	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- ⏰ According to Dunlap (2019), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Lysinibacillus mangiferahumi Yang et al. 2012. Publication: Dunlap CA. Lysinibacillus mangiferihumi, Lysinibacillus tabacifolii and Lysinibacillus varians are later heterotypic synonyms of Lysinibacillus sphaericus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:2958-2962. 🇺🇸
- ⏰ According to Dunlap (2019), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Lysinibacillus mangiferihumi corrig. Yang et al. 2012. Publication: Dunlap CA. Lysinibacillus mangiferihumi, Lysinibacillus tabacifolii and Lysinibacillus varians are later heterotypic synonyms of Lysinibacillus sphaericus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:2958-2962. 🇺🇸
- ⏰ According to Dunlap (2019), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Lysinibacillus tabacifolii Duan et al. 2014. Publication: Dunlap CA. Lysinibacillus mangiferihumi, Lysinibacillus tabacifolii and Lysinibacillus varians are later heterotypic synonyms of Lysinibacillus sphaericus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:2958-2962. 🇺🇸
- ⏰ According to Dunlap (2019), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Lysinibacillus varians Zhu et al. 2014. Publication: Dunlap CA. Lysinibacillus mangiferihumi, Lysinibacillus tabacifolii and Lysinibacillus varians are later heterotypic synonyms of Lysinibacillus sphaericus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:2958-2962. 🇺🇸
- 🏢 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 69, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3663-3665.
- ❗ Bacillus sphaericus 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 authority of the taxon name (Meyer and Neide) deliberately differs from the author of the publication (Neide).
- 😷 The risk group for Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "animal pathogen - biological class of risk animal: 2". — The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "default: 1 Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1; subsp fusiformis: 1 Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "PI PIIC". — 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 947 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 pathogenicity of the species itself.
- 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology (Reading) 2022; 168:0. 🇬🇧

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
"Bacillus sphaericus var. fusiformis" Smith et al. 1946	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Neide E. Botanische Beschreibung einiger sporenbildenden Bakterien. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene. Abteilung II 1904; 12:337-352.

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Species Bacillus sphaericus