Geobacillus

Geobacillus is a bacterial genus from the family of Bacillaceae.^[1][3][4]

Geobacillus
Geobacillus stearothermophilus on agar plate
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Bacillales
Family:	Anoxybacillaceae
Genus:	Geobacillus Nazina et al. 2001[1]
Type species
Geobacillus stearothermophilus (Donk 1920) Nazina et al. 2001[1]
Species[2]
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Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[2]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[5][6][7]

120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[8][9][10]

Geobacillus G. icigianus Bryanskaya et al. 2015 G. subterraneus Nazina et al. 2001 G. subterraneus aromaticivorans Poli et al. 2013 G. thermodenitrificans (Manachini et al. 2000) Nazina et al. 2001 G. vulcani (Caccamo et al. 2000) Nazina et al. 2004 G. lituanicus Kuisiene, Raugalas & Chitavichius 2004 G. kaustophilus (Priest, Goodfellow & Todd 1989) Nazina et al. 2001 G. thermoleovorans (Zarilla & Perry 1988) Nazina et al. 2001 G. jurassicus Nazina et al. 2005 G.uzenensis Nazina et al. 2001 G. proteinophilus Semenova et al. 2019 G. stearothermophilus (Donk 1920) Nazina et al. 2001 G. thermocatenulatus (Golovacheva et al. 1991) Nazina et al. 2001

Geobacillus G. subterraneus [incl. G.uzenensis] G. thermodenitrificans G. stearothermophilus G. lituanicus Flavobacterium thermophilum Loginova & Egorova 1982 non Yoshida & Oshima 1971 G. icigianus G. jurassicus G. vulcani G. proteinophilus G. thermocatenulatus "G. zalihae" Abd Rahman et al. 2007 G. thermoleovorans [incl. G. kaustophilus]

Unassigned species:

• "G. anatolicus" Uysal et al. 2001 ex Caglayan & Bilgin 2011
• "G. bogazici" Turker et al. 2003
• "G. kaue" Uysal et al. 2001 ex Caglayan & Bilgin 2011
• "G. mahadia" Mohtar et al. 2016
• "G. thermopakistaniensis" Siddiqui et al. 2014
• "G. thermoparaffinivorans" Wang et al. 2005
• "G. tropicalis" Burgos-Figueroa et al. 2006
• "G. uralicus" Popova et al. 2002

See also

• List of Bacteria genera
• List of bacterial orders