Name: Thalassobacillus cyri Sánchez-Porro et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: L. gen. masc. n. cyri, of Cyrus, named after Cyrus, the first king of Persia, where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCM 7597; DSM 21635; HS286; JCM 15722

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MT760152 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sanchez-Porro C, Amoozegar MA, Rohban R, Hajighasemi M, Ventosa A. Thalassobacillus cyri sp. nov., a moderately halophilic Gram-positive bacterium from a hypersaline lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2565-2570.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:3-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.17181 (N = 59).
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 2 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Thalassobacillus García et al. 2005

Assigned by: Sanchez-Porro C, Amoozegar MA, Rohban R, Hajighasemi M, Ventosa A. Thalassobacillus cyri sp. nov., a moderately halophilic Gram-positive bacterium from a hypersaline lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2565-2570.

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Record number: 788105