Species ***Bacillus* *yapensis***

Name: Bacillus yapensis Xu et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: yap.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. yapensis, pertaining to Yap trench, which is the geographical position where the first isolate of this species was obtained

Gender: masculine

Type strain: JCM 33181; MCCC 1A14143; XXST-01

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16S rRNA gene: MK243676 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Xu X, Yu L, Xu G, Wang Q, Wei S, Tang X. Bacillus yapensis sp. nov., a novel piezotolerant bacterium isolated from deep-sea sediment of the Yap Trench, Pacific Ocean. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:389-396.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 221. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6562.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Robertmurraya yapensis" Gupta 2023	homotypic synonym, not validly published

Notes:
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.05836 (N = 73).
- 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2025-02-04.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of other species in the genus.

Parent taxon: Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Xu X, Yu L, Xu G, Wang Q, Wei S, Tang X. Bacillus yapensis sp. nov., a novel piezotolerant bacterium isolated from deep-sea sediment of the Yap Trench, Pacific Ocean. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:389-396.

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Record number: 57273

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Species Bacillus yapensis

Species ***Bacillus* *yapensis***