Name: Pontibacillus salipaludis Sultanpuram et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pa.lu’dis sa.li.pa.lu’dis L. masc. n. sal, salt; L. gen. fem. n. paludis, of a swamp; N.L. gen. fem. n. salipaludis, of a salt pan

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 9DM; CGMCC 1.15353; KCTC 33742; LMG 29102

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16S rRNA gene: LN872943 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sultanpuram VR, Mothe T, Mohammed F, Chintalapati S, Chintalapati VR. Pontibacillus salipaludis sp. nov., a slightly halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt pan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3884-3889.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Pontibacillus Lim et al. 2005

Assigned by: Sultanpuram VR, Mothe T, Mohammed F, Chintalapati S, Chintalapati VR. Pontibacillus salipaludis sp. nov., a slightly halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt pan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3884-3889.

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Record number: 794660