Name: Saccharibacillus kuerlensis Yang et al. 2009

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: kuerl.en’sis. N.L. masc./fem. adj. kuerlensis, pertaining to Kuerle, a city of Xinjiang Province in the north-west of China where the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.6964; DSM 22868; HR1; JCM 14865; KCTC 13182

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: EU046270 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yang SY, Liu H, Liu R, Zhang KY, Lai R. Saccharibacillus kuerlensis sp. nov., isolated from a desert soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:953-957.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1853-1855.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.18030 (N = 11).
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 6 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: Mukherjee S, Seshadri R, Varghese NJ, Eloe-Fadrosh EA, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Goker M, Coates RC, Hadjithomas M, Pavlopoulos GA, Paez-Espino D, et al. 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life. Nat Biotechnol 2017; 35:676-683.

Parent taxon: Saccharibacillus Rivas et al. 2008

Assigned by: Yang SY, Liu H, Liu R, Zhang KY, Lai R. Saccharibacillus kuerlensis sp. nov., isolated from a desert soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:953-957.

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