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Bacillales, from Latin "bacillus", meaning "little staff, wand", are an order of Gram-positive bacteria, placed within the Bacillota. The Bacillales are the most productive order of the phylum "Firmicutes". Representative genera include Bacillus, Listeria and Staphylococcus.

Species

ORDER

  1. KingdomBacteria
  2. PhylumFirmicutes
  3. ClassBacilli
  4. OrderBacillales
Habitatmarine, freshwater
Observations recorded982,657

Les Bacillales sont un ordre de bactéries à gram positif de la division des Firmicutes.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
5
Collections
CIIDIR-IPN
Recorded in
Mexico

Wikidata facts

Instance of
synonym
Parent taxon
Bacilli
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taxon name
Bacillales
Commons category
Bacillales
taxon rank
order
topic's main category
Category:Bacillales
taxonomic type
Bacillus
taxon synonym of
Caryophanales
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Bacillales, from Latin "bacillus", meaning "little staff, wand", are an order of Gram-positive bacteria, placed within the Bacillota. The Bacillales are the most productive order of the phylum "Firmicutes". Representative genera include Bacillus, Listeria and Staphylococcus.

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

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