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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Bacillus spongicola"

Name: "Bacillus spongicola" Moon et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: spon.gi’co.la. L. fem. n. spongia, a sponge; L. masc./fem. n. suff. -cola, inhabitant (from incola); N.L. masc./fem. n. spongicola, inhabitant of sponges

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … spon-GI-ko-la, masculine

Nomenclatural type: 2205SS5-2; JCM 36756; KACC 23675

16S rRNA gene: OR965015 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Moon Y-L, Kim K-H, Han S-M, Park J-S. Bacillus spongicola sp. nov., isolated from a marine sponge (Jaspis coreana) collected in the Republic of Korea. Korean Journal of Microbiology 2025; 61:308-318. 🇰🇷

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Moon Y-L, Kim K-H, Han S-M, Park J-S. Bacillus spongicola sp. nov., isolated from a marine sponge (Jaspis coreana) collected in the Republic of Korea. Korean Journal of Microbiology 2025; 61:308-318. 🇰🇷

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Record number: 70753
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