Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.23502

Name

Virgibacillus litoralis Chen et al. 2012

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	Virgibacillus Heyndrickx et al. 1998 emend. Heyrman et al. 2003

Type Strain

representative organism

KCTC 13228^T (=JSM 089168 =DSM 21085)

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 Caryophanales Peshkoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Caryophanaceae Peshkoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta and Patel 2019
genus Virgibacillus Heyndrickx et al. 1998 emend. Heyrman et al. 2003
species Virgibacillus litoralis Chen et al. 2012

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 Virgibacillus litoralis Chen et al. 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.23502.

Source File

10.1601/tx.23502.xml

References

Chen Y-G, Liu Z-X, Peng D-J, Zhang Y-Q, Wang Y-X, Tang S-K, Li W-J, Cui X-L, Liu Y-Q. Virgibacillus litoralis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from saline soil. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2009; 96:323-329. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-009-9349-0 [PubMed].