Metabacillus galliciensis (DSM 21539, LMG 24668, BFLP-1)

Name: Metabacillus galliciensis (DSM 21539, LMG 24668, BFLP-1)
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BacDive ID 1296

Type strain

Strain Designation BFLP-1

Culture col. no. DSM 21539 LMG 24668 BFLP-1

NCBI tax ID(s) 531816

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History <- J. L. Balcásar, IIM, Vigo, Spain; BFLP-1

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Metabacillus galliciensis BFLP-1 is an aerobe, spore-forming, psychrophilic prokaryote that was isolated from faeces of wild seahorse Hippocampus guttulatus.

spore-forming Gram-positive motile rod-shaped aerobe psychrophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 356165

LMG 24668,DSM 21539

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:04

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Metabacillus

Species Metabacillus galliciensis

Full scientific name Metabacillus galliciensis (Balcázar et al. 2010) Patel and Gupta 2020

Synonyms (1)

Bacillus galliciensis

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
29376	positive	3 µm	1 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

29376

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
15775	BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: NaCl 19.45 g/l MgCl2 5.9 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l MnSO4 0.01 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
15775	positive	growth	22	psychrophilic
29376	positive	optimum	20	psychrophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
29376	positive	optimum	7.2
29376	positive	growth	5.5-9	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

29376

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

29376

Spore formationyes

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29376	NaCl	positive	growth	0-7 %
29376	NaCl	positive	optimum	2 %

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29376	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
29376	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
29376	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
29376	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
29376	29864 ChEBI	mannitol	+	carbon source
29376	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
29376	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
29376	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Fishes	-
#Host Body Product	#Gastrointestinal tract	#Feces (Stool)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
15775	faeces of wild seahorse Hippocampus guttulatus	Hippocampus guttulatus	Galicia, Toralla	Spain	ESP	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FM162181 (>99% sequence identity) for Metabacillus galliciensis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	426
Soil Samples	1405
Animal Samples	814
Plant Samples	492
Total Samples	3137

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15775	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15775	Bacillus galliciensis partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain BFLP-1T	FM162181	1490		531816

GC content

15775

GC-content (mol%)48.1

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Bacillus galliciensis sp. nov., isolated from faeces of wild seahorses (Hippocampus guttulatus).	Balcazar JL, Pintado J, Planas M	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.011817-0	2009

References

#15775	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21539
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#25784	IJSEM 892 2010 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.011817-0 , PubMed 19661512 )
#29376	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #25784
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Metabacillus galliciensis (DSM 21539, LMG 24668, BFLP-1)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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