Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10147

Name

Bacillus altitudinis Shivaji et al. 2006 emend. Liu et al. 2016

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2020

Type Strain

representative organism

41KF2b^T (=MTCC 7306 =JCM 13350 =DSM 21631 =BCRC 17879)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
order Bacillales Prévot 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2020
species Bacillus altitudinis Shivaji et al. 2006 emend. Liu et al. 2016

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Bacillus altitudinis Shivaji et al. 2006 emend. Liu et al. 2016. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10147.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10147.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 30, 2018.

References

Shivaji S, Chaturvedi P, Suresh K, Reddy GS, Dutt CB, Wainwright M, Narlikar JV, Bhargava PM. Bacillus aerius sp. nov., Bacillus aerophilus sp. nov., Bacillus stratosphericus sp. nov. and Bacillus altitudinis sp. nov., isolated from cryogenic tubes used for collecting air samples from high altitudes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1465-1473. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64029-0 [PubMed].