Name: Shouchella shacheensis (Lei et al. 2014) Joshi et al. 2022

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Bacillus shacheensis Lei et al. 2014

Etymology: sha.che.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. shacheensis, pertaining to Shache County, Xinjiang Province, China, the source of the sample from which the type strain was isolated [probably better: shachensis]

Gender: feminine

Type strain: DSM 26902; HNA-14; KCTC 33145; SCULCB HNA-14

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HQ620634 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Joshi A, Thite S, Karodi P, Joseph N, Lodha T. Alkalihalobacterium elongatum gen. nov. sp. nov.: An Antibiotic-Producing Bacterium Isolated From Lonar Lake and Reclassification of the Genus Alkalihalobacillus Into Seven Novel Genera. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:722369.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 203. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5167.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Alkalihalobacillus shacheensis (Lei et al. 2014) Patel and Gupta 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Bacillus shacheensis Lei et al. 2014	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.02219 (N = 76).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Shouchella Joshi et al. 2022

Assigned by: Joshi A, Thite S, Karodi P, Joseph N, Lodha T. Alkalihalobacterium elongatum gen. nov. sp. nov.: An Antibiotic-Producing Bacterium Isolated From Lonar Lake and Reclassification of the Genus Alkalihalobacillus Into Seven Novel Genera. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:722369.

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Record number: 26642