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Bacillus aerius

species of bacterium

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ18355945 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bacillus aerius is the name proposed in 2006 for a species of aerobic, Gram-positive, motile, rod-shaped, endospore-forming bacterium isolated from a cryogenic tube used to collect an air sample at high altitude. The specific epithet aerius is Latin for "pertaining to the air" or "aerial". The strain designated as the type strain was 24KT (= MTCC 7303T = JCM 13348T).

The name did not meet the requirements for valid publication under the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes and therefore has no standing in prokaryotic nomenclature.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bacillus aerius” as species of bacterium. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bacillus, aerius and species can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of bacterium. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18355945. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006.

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Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bacillus aerius” 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.