Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5034

Name

Gracilibacillus Wainø et al. 1999 emend. Hirota et al. 2014

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2016]

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	Gracilibacillus halotolerans Wainø et al. 1999
species	Gracilibacillus alcaliphilus Hirota et al. 2014
species	Gracilibacillus bigeumensis Kim et al. 2012
species	Gracilibacillus boraciitolerans Ahmed et al. 2007
species	Gracilibacillus dipsosauri (Lawson et al. 1996) Wainø et al. 1999
species	Gracilibacillus halophilus Chen et al. 2008
species	Gracilibacillus kekensis Gao et al. 2012
species	Gracilibacillus kimchii Oh et al. 2021
species	Gracilibacillus lacisalsi Jeon et al. 2008
species	Gracilibacillus marinus Huang et al. 2013
species	Gracilibacillus massiliensis Diop et al. 2016
species	Gracilibacillus orientalis Carrasco et al. 2006
species	Gracilibacillus oryzae He et al. 2020
species	Gracilibacillus quinghaiensis Chen et al. 2008
species	Gracilibacillus saliphilus Tang et al. 2009
species	Gracilibacillus salitolerans Gan et al. 2020
species	Gracilibacillus suaedae Huang et al. 2021
species	Gracilibacillus thailandensis Chamroensaksri et al. 2010
species	Gracilibacillus ureilyticus Huo et al. 2010
species	Gracilibacillus xinjiangensis Yang et al. 2013

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 Gracilibacillus Wainø et al. 1999 emend. Hirota et al. 2014

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

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Taxon Abstract for the genus Gracilibacillus Wainø et al. 1999 emend. Hirota et al. 2014. NamesforLife, LLC. Retrieved August 18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5034.


This information was last reviewed on January 11, 2022.

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