Name: Fontibacillus aquaticus Saha et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: a.qua’ti.cus. L. masc. adj. aquaticus, living, growing, or found in or by water, aquatic, referring to the isolation of the type strain from water

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 17643; GPTSA 19; MTCC 7155

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16S rRNA gene: DQ023221 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Saha P, Krishnamurthi S, Bhattacharya A, Sharma R, Chakrabarti T. Fontibacillus aquaticus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a warm spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:422-428.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1011-1012.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Fontibacillus Saha et al. 2010. Publication: Saha P, Krishnamurthi S, Bhattacharya A, Sharma R, Chakrabarti T. Fontibacillus aquaticus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a warm spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:422-428.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 5 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Fontibacillus Saha et al. 2010

Assigned by: Saha P, Krishnamurthi S, Bhattacharya A, Sharma R, Chakrabarti T. Fontibacillus aquaticus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a warm spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:422-428.

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Record number: 788363