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Alteribacillus

genus of bacteria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMar 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ26209516 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alteribacillus is a genus of bacteria from the family Bacillaceae.

Phylogeny

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

See also

List of Bacteria genera

List of bacterial orders

References

Further reading

Didari, M; Amoozegar, MA; Bagheri, M; Schumann, P; Spröer, C; Sánchez-Porro, C; Ventosa, A (November 2012). "Alteribacillus bidgolensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from a hypersaline lake, and reclassification of Bacillus persepolensis as Alteribacillus persepolensis comb. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 62 (Pt 11): 2691–7. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.034173-0.

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The public source identifies “Alteribacillus” as genus of bacteria. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alteribacillus, genus and bacteria.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 1099—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alteribacillus, genus and bacteria providing the first useful test.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q26209516. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 1099.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alteribacillus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.