Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5024

Name

Geobacillus stearothermophilus (Donk 1920) Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Coorevits 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	Geobacillus Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Aliyu et al. 2018

Type Strain

representative organism

NBRC 12550^T (=NCCB 75019 =LMG 6939 =KCTC 1665 =DSM 22 =VKM B-510 =IFO 12550 =ATCC 12980 =JCM 2501 =CCUG 26241 =CIP 66.23 =IAM 11062 =CCRC 11092 =NCFB 1768 =NCTC 10339 =KCTC 1752 =NCIMB 8923 =NRRL B-1172 =CCM 2062)

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 Geobacillus Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Aliyu et al. 2018
species Geobacillus stearothermophilus (Donk 1920) Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Coorevits 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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.22100	1518 (=ATCC 7953 =CCUG 621 =DSM 5934)
10.1601/ex.18149	T6
10.1601/ex.19358	C56-N21
10.1601/ex.15750	L14
10.1601/ex.15749	10
10.1601/ex.17163	T1

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Geobacillus stearothermophilus (Donk 1920) Nazina et al. 2001 emend. Coorevits et al. 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5024.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5024.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 8, 2011.

References

Nazina TN, Tourova TP, Poltaraus AB, Novikova EV, Grigoryan AA, Ivanova AE, Lysenko AM, Petrunyaka VV, Osipov GA, Belyaev SS, Ivanov MV. Taxonomic study of aerobic thermophilic bacilli: descriptions of Geobacillus subterraneus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Geobacillus uzenensis sp. nov. from petroleum reservoirs and transfer of Bacillus stearothermophilus, Bacillus thermocatenulatus, Bacillus thermoleovorans, Bacillus kaustophilus, Bacillus thermodenitrificans to Geobacillus as the new combinations G. stearothermophilus, G. th. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:433-446. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-51-2-433 [PubMed].