Name: Heyndrickxia shackletonii (Logan et al. 2004) Narsing Rao et al. 2023

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Bacillus shackletonii Logan et al. 2004

Etymology: shack.le.to’ni.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. shackletonii, of Shackleton, referring to RRS Shackleton, the ship used by the first British scientific expedition to visit Candlemas Island, the vessel being named in honour of the celebrated Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … s͡hakk-le-TO-ni-i, feminine

Type strain: CIP 107762; DSM 18868; isolate SSI024; KCTC 13003; LMG 18435; Logan collection number B1724; SSI 24

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ250318 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Narsing Rao MP, Banerjee A, Liu GH, Thamchaipenet A. Genome-based reclassification of Bacillus acidicola, Bacillus pervagus and the genera Heyndrickxia, Margalitia and Weizmannia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5961. 🇹🇭

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 73, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6041.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Bacillus shackletonii Logan et al. 2004	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Margalitia shackletonii (Logan et al. 2004) Gupta et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.04376 (N = 87).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 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 risk group of other species in the genus.

Parent taxon: Heyndrickxia Gupta et al. 2020

Assigned by: Narsing Rao MP, Banerjee A, Liu GH, Thamchaipenet A. Genome-based reclassification of Bacillus acidicola, Bacillus pervagus and the genera Heyndrickxia, Margalitia and Weizmannia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5961. 🇹🇭

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Record number: 39738