Species ***Bacillus* *thuringiensis***

Name: Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner 1915 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: thu.rin.gi.en’sis. L. masc./fem. adj. thuringiensis, pertaining to Thuringia, the German province from where the organism was first isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 10792; CCUG 7429; CIP 53.137; DSM 2046; HAMBI 478; JCM 20386; LMG 7138; NBRC 101235; NCAIM B.01292; NCCB 70008; NRRL HD-735; VKM B-1544

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: D16281 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Berliner E. Über die Schlaffsucht der Mehlmottenraupe (Ephestia kühniella Zell) und ihren Erreger Bacillus thuringiensis n. sp. Zeitschrift für angewandte Entomologie Berlin 1915; 2:29-56.

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: correct name

Risk group: 1

Notes:
- The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.05810 (N = 78).
- 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 2022; 168:0.
- A genome-scale phylogenetic analysis of the Bacillus cereus group was conducted by Liu et al. (2015). Publication: Liu Y, Lai Q, Goker M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Wang M, Sun Y, Wang L, Shao Z. Genomic insights into the taxonomic status of the Bacillus cereus group. Sci Rep 2015; 5:14082.
- The species Bacillus thuringiensis encompasses several subspecies which have no standing in bacterial nomenclature. A list of these subspecies is provided in "The Bacillus Genetic Stock Center Catalog of Strains, Seventh Edition, Part 2: Bacillus thuringiensis and Bacillus cereus. © 1999". This document is available on the Bacillus Genetic Stock Center (BGSC) web site (see the file http://www.bgsc.org/Catalogs/Catpart2.pdf). Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

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: 23

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. morrisoni" Cantwell et al. 1982	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. guiyangiensis" Li et al. 1999	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. toumanoffii" Krieg 1969	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. jinghongiensis" Li et al. 1999	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. thompsoni" Calabrese and Nickerson 1980	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. pakistani" Barjac et al. 1977	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai" Oeda et al. 1987	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. shandongiensis" Wang et al. 1986	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. galleriae" Sakanian et al. 1982	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. colmeri" De Lucca et al. 1984	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. dendrolimus" Chen et al. 2004	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tolworthi" Sick et al. 1990	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. fukuokaensis" Ohba and Aizawa 1989	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. oswaldocruzi" Rabinovitch et al. 1995	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. toguchini" Khodyrev 1990	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. wuhanensis" Kuo and Chak 1996	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. higo" Ohba et al. 1995	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. coreanensis" Mizuki et al. 1999	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis" Krieg et al. 1983	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki" Bulla et al. 1979	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. darmstadiensis" Ohba et al. 1979	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. sotto" Shibano et al. 1985	not validly published
"Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. berliner" Klier et al. 1982	not validly published

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Berliner E. Über die Schlaffsucht der Mehlmottenraupe (Ephestia kühniella Zell) und ihren Erreger Bacillus thuringiensis n. sp. Zeitschrift für angewandte Entomologie Berlin 1915; 2:29-56.

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Species Bacillus thuringiensis

Species ***Bacillus* *thuringiensis***