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Species Brevibacillus levickii
Name: Brevibacillus levickii Allan et al. 2005
Etymology: le.vic’ki.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. levickii, of Levick, named after G. Murray Levick, surgeon and biological scientist of Captain R. F. Scott’s Northern Party, the first scientific expedition to visit the vicinity of Mt Melbourne in 1912
Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … le-WIK-ki-i, masculine
Type strain: B 1657; CIP 108307; DSM 18918; LMG 22481; Logan B-1657
See detailed strain information at
16S rRNA gene:
AJ715378
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FASTA
Valid publication:
Allan RN, Lebbe L, Heyrman J, De Vos P, Buchanan CJ, Logan NA. Brevibacillus levickii sp. nov. and Aneurinibacillus terranovensis sp. nov., two novel thermoacidophiles isolated from geothermal soils of northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1039-1050. 
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IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1747-1749.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)
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Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — 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 2 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙆 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 pathogenicity of other species in the genus.
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🧍 The specific epithet, levickii, is a neo-Latin noun, not a neo-Latin adjective as cited in the paper by Allan et al. 2005.
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. 🇫🇷
Parent taxon: Brevibacillus Shida et al. 1996
Assigned by:
Allan RN, Lebbe L, Heyrman J, De Vos P, Buchanan CJ, Logan NA. Brevibacillus levickii sp. nov. and Aneurinibacillus terranovensis sp. nov., two novel thermoacidophiles isolated from geothermal soils of northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1039-1050. 🇬🇧
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Record number: 783555
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