Name: Margalitia shackletonii (Logan et al. 2004) Gupta et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Bacillus shackletonii Logan et al. 2004

Etymology: sha.ckle.ton’i.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

Gender: feminine

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

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16S rRNA gene: AJ250318 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gupta RS, Patel S, Saini N, Chen S. Robust demarcation of 17 distinct Bacillus species clades, proposed as novel Bacillaceae genera, by phylogenomics and comparative genomic analyses: description of Robertmurraya kyonggiensis sp. nov. and proposal for an emended genus Bacillus limiting it only to the members of the Subtilis and Cereus clades of species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5753-5798.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4645.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Heyndrickxia shackletonii (Logan et al. 2004) Narsing-Rao et al. 2023

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Bacillus shackletonii Logan et al. 2004	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Heyndrickxia shackletonii (Logan et al. 2004) Narsing-Rao et al. 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the genus Margalitia Gupta et al. 2020. Publication: Gupta RS, Patel S, Saini N, Chen S. Robust demarcation of 17 distinct Bacillus species clades, proposed as novel Bacillaceae genera, by phylogenomics and comparative genomic analyses: description of Robertmurraya kyonggiensis sp. nov. and proposal for an emended genus Bacillus limiting it only to the members of the Subtilis and Cereus clades of species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5753-5798.
  • Margalitia shackletonii is the correct name if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Margalitia.

Parent taxon: Margalitia Gupta et al. 2020

Assigned by: Gupta RS, Patel S, Saini N, Chen S. Robust demarcation of 17 distinct Bacillus species clades, proposed as novel Bacillaceae genera, by phylogenomics and comparative genomic analyses: description of Robertmurraya kyonggiensis sp. nov. and proposal for an emended genus Bacillus limiting it only to the members of the Subtilis and Cereus clades of species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5753-5798.

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Record number: 14727