Name: Alicyclobacillus hesperidum subsp. hesperidum (Albuquerque et al. 2000) Goto et al. 2023

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov.

Basonym: Alicyclobacillus hesperidum Albuquerque et al. 2000

Etymology: hes.pe.ri’dum. L. gen. fem. pl. n. hesperidum, of the Hesperides, mythological figures whom the Greeks believed to have lived at the Western edge of the Earth in a miraculous garden, which we interpret as the Azores

Gender: masculine

Type strain: BCRC 17524; CECT 5324; DSM 12489; FR-11

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Valid publication: Goto K, Fujii T, Yasui K, Mochida K, Kato-Tanaka Y, Morohoshi S, An SY, Kasai H, Yokota A. Proposal of a novel subspecies: Alicyclobacillus hesperidum subspecies aegles. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6067.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 73, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6145.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🙋 This subspecies could be automatically created (rule 40d) by the valid publication of Alicyclobacillus hesperidum subsp. aegles Goto et al. 2023 but an explicit description was also provided. Publication: Goto K, Fujii T, Yasui K, Mochida K, Kato-Tanaka Y, Morohoshi S, An SY, Kasai H, Yokota A. Proposal of a novel subspecies: Alicyclobacillus hesperidum subspecies aegles. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6067.

Parent taxon: Alicyclobacillus hesperidum Albuquerque et al. 2000

Assigned by: Goto K, Fujii T, Yasui K, Mochida K, Kato-Tanaka Y, Morohoshi S, An SY, Kasai H, Yokota A. Proposal of a novel subspecies: Alicyclobacillus hesperidum subspecies aegles. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6067.

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Record number: 8810