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Hydrogenibacillus

Hydrogenibacillus is a thermophilic and facultatively chemolithoautotrophic genus of bacteria from the family of Bacillaceae with one known species. Bacillus schlegelii was transferred to Hydrogenibacillus schlegelii

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Hydrogenibacillus
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Caryophanales
Family: Bacillaceae
Genus: Hydrogenibacillus
Kämpfer et al. 20131
Type species
Hydrogenibacillus schlegelii
(Schenk & Aragno 1981) Kämpfer et al. 2013
Species2

Hydrogenibacillus is a thermophilic and facultatively chemolithoautotrophic genus of bacteria from the family of Bacillaceae with one known species (Hydrogenibacillus schlegelii).1345 Bacillus schlegelii was transferred to Hydrogenibacillus schlegelii6

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  1. A.C. Parte; et al. "Hydrogenibacillus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2025-02-28.
  2. C.L. Schoch; et al. "Hydrogenibacillus". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2025-02-28.
  3. "Hydrogenibacillus". Www.uniprot.org.
  4. SCHENK, A.; ARAGNO, M. (1 December 1979). "Bacillus schlegelii, a New Species of Thermophilic, Facultatively Chemolithoautotrophic Bacterium Oxidizing Molecular Hydrogen". Journal of General Microbiology. 115 (2): 333–341. doi:10.1099/00221287-115-2-333.
  5. Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (2013). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Nomenclature Abstract for Hydrogenibacillus Kämpfer et al. 2013". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.24063.
  6. Kämpfer, P; Glaeser, SP; Busse, HJ (May 2013). "Transfer of Bacillus schlegelii to a novel genus and proposal of Hydrogenibacillus schlegelii gen. nov., comb. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Pt 5): 1723–7. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.045146-0. PMID 22922537.