Bacillus filicolonicus
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Phylum Bacillota (Firmicutes), Class Bacilli, Order Caryophanales, Family Bacillaceae, Genus Bacillus, Bacillus filicolonicus  ZoBell
and Upham (1944). Note: species is not included neither in Euzeby's LPSN nor in Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology,
Volume 3, 2009.
Gram positive, 0.5-0.7 / 3.5-5.5 μm, motile, peritrichously and moderately flagellated.
Spores: ellipsoidal, subterminal or terminal, swelling the sporangium.
Thread-like colony on solid media.
Growth temperature from 5 ºC to 40 ºC.
Grows in anaerobic agar. Grows in  5% NaCl and in 10% NaCl. Grows at 5.7 pH.
Isolated from sea water and marine mud. No resistance to lysozyme.
Unknown.
  1. Gordon R.E., Haynes W.C., Pang C.H. (1973) – The genus Bacillus . Agriculture Handbook No. 427, U.S.D.A., Washington D.C.
  2. Buchanan R.E., Gibbons N.E., Cowan S.T., Holt J.G., Liston J., Murray R.G.E., Niven C.F., Ravin A.W., Stanier R.W. ( 1974) –  
    Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eight Edition, The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore.
Positive results for caseinase, catalase, gelatinase, reduction of nitrate to nitrite,
starch hydrolysis, acid production from glucose and mannitol.

Negative results for citrate utilization, indole production, decomposition of tyrosine,
Voges-Proskauer, acid production from arabinose and xylose.
(c) Costin Stoica
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