Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5071

Name

Alicyclobacillus Wisotzkey et al. 1992 emend. Karavaiko et al. 2005

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	Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and Rainey 2010 emend. Klenk et al. 2011

Members

species	Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius (Darland and Brock 1971) Wisotzkey et al. 1992 emend. Goto et al. 2006
species	Alicyclobacillus acidiphilus Matsubara et al. 2002
species	Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris (Deinhard et al. 1988) Wisotzkey et al. 1992
species	Alicyclobacillus aeris Guo et al. 2009
species	Alicyclobacillus andinensis None 2015
species	Alicyclobacillus cellulosilyticus Kusube et al. 2014
species	Alicyclobacillus consociatus Glaeser et al. 2013
species	Alicyclobacillus contaminans Goto et al. 2007
species	Alicyclobacillus curvatus Jiang et al. 2022
species	Alicyclobacillus cycloheptanicus (Deinhard et al. 1988) Wisotzkey et al. 1992
species	Alicyclobacillus dauci Nakano et al. 2015
species	Alicyclobacillus disulfidooxidans (Dufresne et al. 1996) Karavaiko et al. 2005
species	Alicyclobacillus fastidiosus Goto et al. 2007
species	Alicyclobacillus ferrooxydans Jiang et al. 2008
species	Alicyclobacillus fodiniaquatilis Zhang et al. 2015
species	Alicyclobacillus fructus Roth et al. 2021
species	Alicyclobacillus herbarius Goto et al. 2002
species	Alicyclobacillus hesperidum Albuquerque et al. 2000
species	Alicyclobacillus kakegawensis Goto et al. 2007
species	Alicyclobacillus macrosporangiidus Goto et al. 2007
species	Alicyclobacillus mali Roth et al. 2021
species	Alicyclobacillus mengziensis Jiang et al. 2022
species	Alicyclobacillus montanus López et al. 2018
species	Alicyclobacillus pohliae Imperio et al. 2008
species	Alicyclobacillus pomorum Goto et al. 2003
species	Alicyclobacillus sacchari Goto et al. 2007
species	Alicyclobacillus sendaiensis Tsuruoka et al. 2003
species	Alicyclobacillus shizuokensis Goto et al. 2007
species	Alicyclobacillus suci Roth et al. 2021
species	Alicyclobacillus tengchongensis Kim et al. 2016
species	Alicyclobacillus tolerans Karavaiko et al. 2005
species	Alicyclobacillus vulcanalis Simbahan et al. 2004
species	Alicyclobacillus 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 Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and Rainey 2010 emend. Klenk et al. 2011
genus Alicyclobacillus Wisotzkey et al. 1992 emend. Karavaiko et al. 2005

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 Alicyclobacillus Wisotzkey et al. 1992 emend. Karavaiko et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5071.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5071.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 1, 2022.

References

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López G, Díaz-Cárdenas C, David Alzate J, Gonzalez LN, Shapiro N, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Restrepo S, Baena S. Description of Alicyclobacillus montanus sp. nov., a mixotrophic bacterium isolated from acidic hot springs. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1608-1615. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002718 [PubMed].
Goto K, Matsubara H, Mochida K, Matsumura T, Hara Y, Niwa M, Yamasato K. Alicyclobacillus herbarius sp. nov., a novel bacterium containing ω-cycloheptane fatty acids, isolated from herbal tea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:109-113. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-52-1-109 [PubMed].
Kusube M, Sugihara A, Moriwaki Y, Ueoka T, Shimane Y, Minegishi H. Alicyclobacillus cellulosilyticus sp. nov., a thermophilic, cellulolytic bacterium isolated from steamed Japanese cedar chips in lumbermill. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2257-2263. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.061440-0 [PubMed].
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Jiang Z, Wu D, Liang Z-L, Li X-T, Huang Y, Zhou N, Liu Z-H, Zhang G-J, Jia Y, Yin H-Q, Liu S-J, Jiang C-Y. Alicyclobacillus curvatus sp. nov. and Alicyclobacillus mengziensis sp. nov., two acidophilic bacteria isolated from acid mine drainage. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005285 [PubMed].
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Tsuruoka N, Isono Y, Shida O, Hemmi H, Nakayama T, Nishino T. Alicyclobacillus sendaiensis sp. nov., a novel acidophilic, slightly thermophilic species isolated from soil in Sendai, Japan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1081-1084. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02409-0 [PubMed].
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