Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10618

Name

Bacillus subtilis (Ehrenberg 1835) Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

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

Members

subspecies	Bacillus subtilis inaquosorum Rooney et al. 2009
subspecies	Bacillus subtilis spizizenii Nakamura et al. 1999
subspecies	Bacillus subtilis stecoris (sic) Adelskov and Patel 2017
subspecies	Bacillus subtilis subtilis (Ehrenberg 1835) Nakamura et al. 1999

Type Strain

representative organism

BGSC 3A1^T (=NCIMB 3610 =JCM 1465 =LMG 7135 =NRRL NRS-744 =DSM 10 =CCM 2216 =NCIB 3610 =ATCC 6051 =NCTC 3610 =IFO 13719 =NCDO 1769 =NBRC 13719 =IAM 12118)

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 subtilis (Ehrenberg 1835) Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.16677	RO-NN-1 (=BGSC 3A27)
10.1601/ex.16678	DK1042
10.1601/ex.19524	YF001
10.1601/ex.21125	BEST195
10.1601/ex.21427	BSn5 (=CCTCC M207124)
10.1601/ex.21428	Abs3
10.1601/ex.21429

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Bacillus subtilis (Ehrenberg 1835) Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10618.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10618.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 17, 2019.

References

Cohn F. Untersuchungen über Bakterien. Beitr Biol Pflanz 1872; 1:127-224.
Rooney AP, Price NPJ, Ehrhardt C, Swezey JL, Bannan JD. Phylogeny and molecular taxonomy of the Bacillus subtilis species complex and description of Bacillus subtilis subsp. inaquosorum subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2429-2436. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.009126-0 [PubMed].
Nakamura LK, Roberts MS, Cohan FM. Relationship of Bacillus subtilis clades associated with strains 168 and W23: a proposal for Bacillus subtilis subsp. subtilis subsp. nov. and Bacillus subtilis subsp. spizizenii subsp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1211-1215. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-3-1211 [PubMed].
Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation List No. 178. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4291-4293. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002415.