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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Bacillus swezeyi

Name: Bacillus swezeyi Dunlap et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: swe’ze.yi. N.L. gen. masc. n. swezeyi, of Swezey, named for James L. Swezey of the US Department of Agriculture for his contributions to bacterial taxonomy and his service to the scientific community as a long-time patents curator and general collections manager of the Agricultural Research Service (NRRL) Culture Collection

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCUG 70177; NRRL B-41294

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MRBK01000096 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Dunlap CA, Schisler DA, Perry EB, Connor N, Cohan FM, Rooney AP. Bacillus swezeyi sp. nov. and Bacillus haynesii sp. nov., isolated from desert soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2720-2725.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4294-4297.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Dunlap CA, Schisler DA, Perry EB, Connor N, Cohan FM, Rooney AP. Bacillus swezeyi sp. nov. and Bacillus haynesii sp. nov., isolated from desert soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2720-2725.

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Record number: 795696
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