Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5023

Name

Geobacillus Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Aliyu et al. 2018

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	Geobacillus stearothermophilus (Donk 1920) Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Coorevits et al. 2012
species	Geobacillus caldoproteolyticus Chen et al. 2004
species	Geobacillus caldoxylosilyticus (Ahmad et al. 2000) Fortina et al. 2001
species	Geobacillus debilis Banat et al. 2004
species	Geobacillus galactosidasius Poli et al. 2012
species	Geobacillus gargensis Nazina et al. 2004
species	Geobacillus icigianus Bryanskaya et al. 2015
species	Geobacillus jurassicus Nazina et al. 2005 emend. Coorevits et al. 2012
species	Geobacillus kaustophilus (Priest et al. 1989) Nazina et al. 2001
species	Geobacillus lituanicus Kuisiene et al. 2004
species	Geobacillus pallidus (Scholz et al. 1988) Banat et al. 2004
species	Geobacillus proteiniphilus Semenova et al. 2019
species	Geobacillus subterraneus Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Poli et al. 2012
species	Geobacillus tepidamans Schäffer et al. 2004
species	Geobacillus thermantarcticus (Nicolaus et al. 2002) Coorevits et al. 2012
species	Geobacillus thermocatenulatus (Golovacheva et al. 1991) Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Dinsdale et al. 2011
species	Geobacillus thermodenitrificans (Manachini et al. 2000) Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Coorevits et al. 2012
species	Geobacillus thermoglucosidans corrig. (Suzuki et al. 1984) Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Coorevits et al. 2012
species	Geobacillus thermoleovorans (Zarilla and Perry 1988) Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Dinsdale et al. 2011
species	Geobacillus toebii Sung et al. 2002 emend. Coorevits et al. 2012
species	Geobacillus uzenensis Nazina et al. 2001
species	Geobacillus vulcani (Caccamo et al. 2000) Nazina et al. 2004
species	Geobacillus yumthangensis Najar et al. 2018
species	Geobacillus sp. None 2015

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 Geobacillus Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Aliyu et al. 2018

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 Geobacillus Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Aliyu et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5023.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5023.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 27, 2019.

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