Taxa

Bacillales

Order

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General Reference

Nature Atlas. "Bacillales." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/order-bacillales.

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Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Bacillales. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/order-bacillales

BibTeX

@misc{natureatlas-bacillales,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Bacillales},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/order-bacillales},
  note = {Accessed September 8, 2026}
}

Bacillales, named from the Latin bacillus for little staff or wand, is an order of Gram-positive bacteria in the phylum Bacillota and class Bacilli, established by Prevot in 1953 with Bacillus as its type genus. It is the most species-rich order of the phylum Bacillota and includes the genera Bacillus, Listeria and Staphylococcus.

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