Alteribacillus iranensis

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| genus = Alteribacillus

| species = iranensis

| authority = Azmatunnisa Begum et al. 2016{{cite journal|last1=Parte|first1=A.C.|title=Alteribacillus|journal=LPSN|url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/alteribacillus}}

| type_strain = DSM 23995, IBRC 10446, strain X5B{{cite journal|title=Alteribacillus iranensis|website=www.uniprot.org|url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/930128|language=en}}

| synonyms = Bacillus iranensis

| synonyms_ref = {{cite journal|last1=Azmatunnisa Begum|first1=M|last2=Varshini|first2=V|last3=Rahul|first3=K|last4=Chandana|first4=A|last5=Sasikala|first5=C|last6=Ramana|first6=CV|title=Description of Alteribacillus alkaliphilus sp. nov., reassignment of Bacillus iranensis (Bagheri et al. 2012) as Alteribacillus iranensis comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Alteribacillus.|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|date=November 2016|volume=66|issue=11|pages=4772–4778|doi=10.1099/ijsem.0.001428|pmid=27530438|doi-access=free}}

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Alteribacillus iranensis is a Gram-positive and moderately halophilic bacterium from the genus of Alteribacillus which has been isolated from mud from the Aran-Bidgol Lake in Iran.{{cite journal|last1=Parker|first1=Charles Thomas|last2=Garrity|first2=George M|editor1-first=Charles Thomas|editor1-last=Parker|editor2-first=George M|editor2-last=Garrity|title=Nomenclature Abstract for Alteribacillus iranensis (Bagheri et al. 2012) Azmatunnisa Begum et al. 2016.|journal=The NamesforLife Abstracts|year=2016|doi=10.1601/nm.29226|language=en}}{{cite journal|title=Details: DSM-23995|website=www.dsmz.de|url=https://www.dsmz.de/catalogues/details/culture/DSM-23995.html|language=en}}{{cite journal|last1=Bagheri|first1=M|last2=Didari|first2=M|last3=Amoozegar|first3=MA|last4=Schumann|first4=P|last5=Sánchez-Porro|first5=C|last6=Mehrshad|first6=M|last7=Ventosa|first7=A|title=Bacillus iranensis sp. nov., a moderate halophile from a hypersaline lake.|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|date=April 2012|volume=62|issue=Pt 4|pages=811–6|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.030874-0|pmid=21571930|doi-access=free}}