Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8784

Name

Pontibacillus Lim et al. 2005 emend. Chen et al. 2010

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Bacillaceae Fischer 1895 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Pontibacillus chungwhensis Lim et al. 2005
species	Pontibacillus halophilus Chen et al. 2009
species	Pontibacillus litoralis Chen et al. 2010
species	Pontibacillus marinus Lim et al. 2005
species	Pontibacillus salicampi Lee et al. 2015
species	Pontibacillus salipaludis Sultanpuram et al. 2016
species	Pontibacillus yanchengensis Yang et al. 2011

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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 Pontibacillus Lim et al. 2005 emend. Chen et al. 2010

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 genus Pontibacillus Lim et al. 2005 emend. Chen et al. 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8784.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8784.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 27, 2016.

References

Yang Y, Zou Z, He M, Wang G. Pontibacillus yanchengensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from salt field soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1906-1911. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.023911-0 [PubMed].
Lee J-C, Kim Y-S, Yun B-S, Whang K-S. Pontibacillus salicampi sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from saltern soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:375-380. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.066423-0 [PubMed].
Chen Y-G, Zhang Y-Q, Yi L-B, Li Z-Y, Wang Y-X, Xiao H-D, Chen Q-H, Cui X-L, Li W-J. Pontibacillus litoralis sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic bacterium isolated from a sea anemone, and emended description of the genus Pontibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:560-565. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.009910-0 [PubMed].
Lim JM, Jeon CO, Song SM, Kim CJ. Pontibacillus chungwhensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic Gram-positive bacterium from a solar saltern in Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:165-170. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63315-0 [PubMed].
Lim JM, Jeon CO, Park DJ, Kim HR, Yoon BJ, Kim CJ. Pontibacillus marinus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from a solar saltern, and emended description of the genus Pontibacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1027-1031. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63489-0 [PubMed].
Chen Y-G, Zhang Y-Q, Xiao H-D, Liu Z-X, Yi L-B, Shi J-X, Zhi X-Y, Cui X-L, Li W-J. Pontibacillus halophilus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a sea urchin. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1635-1639. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.002469-0 [PubMed].
Sultanpuram VR, Mothe T, Mohammed F, Chintalapati S, Chintalapati VR. Pontibacillus salipaludis sp., nov., a slightly halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt pan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3884-3889. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001281 [PubMed].