Name: Effusibacillus consociatus (Glaeser et al. 2013) Watanabe et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Alicyclobacillus consociatus Glaeser et al. 2013

Etymology: con.so.ci.a’tus. L. masc. part. adj. consociatus, associated with, intended to mean that the type strain may have been associated with a human clinical case

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: ef-fu-si-ba-KIL-lus kon-so-ki-A-tus, masculine

Type strain: CCM 8439; CCUG 53762; DSM 28459

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HE613268 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Watanabe M, Kojima H, Fukui M. Proposal of Effusibacillus lacus gen. nov., sp. nov., and reclassification of Alicyclobacillus pohliae as Effusibacillus pohliae comb. nov. and Alicyclobacillus consociatus as Effusibacillus consociatus comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2770-2774. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3607-3609.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Alicyclobacillus consociatus Glaeser et al. 2013	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.10046 (N = 5).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. 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 2026-06-11.
  • 🙆 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 the species itself.
  • 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is a putative human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology (Reading) 2022; 168:0. 🇬🇧

Parent taxon: Effusibacillus Watanabe et al. 2014

Assigned by: Watanabe M, Kojima H, Fukui M. Proposal of Effusibacillus lacus gen. nov., sp. nov., and reclassification of Alicyclobacillus pohliae as Effusibacillus pohliae comb. nov. and Alicyclobacillus consociatus as Effusibacillus consociatus comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2770-2774. 🇯🇵

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Record number: 792028