Name: Psychrobacillus psychrodurans (Abd El-Rahman et al. 2002) Krishnamurthi et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Bacillus psychrodurans Abd El-Rahman et al. 2002

Etymology: psy.chro.dur’ans. Gr. masc. adj. psychros, cold; L. pres. part. durans, enduring; N.L. part. adj. psychrodurans, cold-enduring

Gender: masculine

Type strain: 68E3; ATCC BAA-796; CIP 107791; DSM 11713; NCIMB 13837

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ277984 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Krishnamurthi S, Ruckmani A, Pukall R, Chakrabarti T. Psychrobacillus gen. nov. and proposal for reclassification of Bacillus insolitus Larkin & Stokes, 1967, B. psychrotolerans Abd-El Rahman et al., 2002 and B. psychrodurans Abd-El Rahman et al., 2002 as Psychrobacillus insolitus comb. nov., Psychrobacillus psychrotolerans comb. nov. and Psychrobacillus psychrodurans comb. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2010; 33:367-373.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 139. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1011-1013.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Bacillus psychrodurans Abd El-Rahman et al. 2002	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is -0.14364 (N = 8).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 10 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 In the title of the effective publication, the personal name Abd El-Rahman is erroneously cited as Abd-El Rahman. — 🧍 In the title of the effective publication, the personal name Abd El-Rahman is erroneously cited asAbd-El Rahman. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Psychrobacillus psychrotolerans from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.
  • 🧍 In the effective publication, the type strain ATCC BAA-796 is erroneously cited as ATCC BAA796. Publication: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 139. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1011-1013.

Parent taxon: Psychrobacillus Krishnamurthi et al. 2011

Assigned by: Krishnamurthi S, Ruckmani A, Pukall R, Chakrabarti T. Psychrobacillus gen. nov. and proposal for reclassification of Bacillus insolitus Larkin & Stokes, 1967, B. psychrotolerans Abd-El Rahman et al., 2002 and B. psychrodurans Abd-El Rahman et al., 2002 as Psychrobacillus insolitus comb. nov., Psychrobacillus psychrotolerans comb. nov. and Psychrobacillus psychrodurans comb. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2010; 33:367-373.

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