Name: Caenibacillus caldisaponilyticus Tsujimoto et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: cal.di.sa.po.ni.ly’ti.cus. L. masc. adj. caldus, hot; M.L. masc. n. sapo (gen. saponis), soap; N.L. adj. lyticus -a -um, able to loosen, able to dissolve; from Gr. adj. lytikos -ê -on, able to loosen, able to dissolve; N.L. masc. adj. caldisaponilyticus, soap-dissolving at high temperature

Gender: masculine

Type strain: B 157; DSM 101100; NBRC 111400

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: LC062711 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Tsujimoto Y, Saito R, Furuya H, Ishihara D, Sahara T, Kimura N, Nishino T, Tsuruoka N, Shigeri Y, Watanabe K. Caenibacillus caldisaponilyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, spore-forming and phospholipid-degrading bacterium isolated from acidulocompost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2684-2690.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3769-3770.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Caenibacillus Tsujimoto et al. 2016. Publication: Tsujimoto Y, Saito R, Furuya H, Ishihara D, Sahara T, Kimura N, Nishino T, Tsuruoka N, Shigeri Y, Watanabe K. Caenibacillus caldisaponilyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, spore-forming and phospholipid-degrading bacterium isolated from acidulocompost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2684-2690.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Caenibacillus Tsujimoto et al. 2016

Assigned by: Tsujimoto Y, Saito R, Furuya H, Ishihara D, Sahara T, Kimura N, Nishino T, Tsuruoka N, Shigeri Y, Watanabe K. Caenibacillus caldisaponilyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, spore-forming and phospholipid-degrading bacterium isolated from acidulocompost. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2684-2690.

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Record number: 794299