Name: Alkalibaculum bacchi Allen et al. 2010

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: bac’chi. L. gen. masc. n. bacchi, of Bacchus, Roman god of wine, referring to the production of ethanol by this organism

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-1772; CP11; DSM 22112

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FJ438469 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Allen TD, Caldwell ME, Lawson PA, Huhnke RL, Tanner RS. Alkalibaculum bacchi gen. nov., sp. nov., a CO-oxidizing, ethanol-producing acetogen isolated from livestock-impacted soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2483-2489.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 60, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:4-5.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Alkalibaculum Allen et al. 2010. Publication: Allen TD, Caldwell ME, Lawson PA, Huhnke RL, Tanner RS. Alkalibaculum bacchi gen. nov., sp. nov., a CO-oxidizing, ethanol-producing acetogen isolated from livestock-impacted soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2483-2489.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 7 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Alkalibaculum Allen et al. 2010

Assigned by: Allen TD, Caldwell ME, Lawson PA, Huhnke RL, Tanner RS. Alkalibaculum bacchi gen. nov., sp. nov., a CO-oxidizing, ethanol-producing acetogen isolated from livestock-impacted soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2483-2489.

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