Virgibacillus alimentarius

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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{{Taxobox | name = Virgibacillus alimentarius

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Bacillota

| classis = Bacilli

| ordo = Bacillales

| familia = Bacillaceae

| genus = Virgibacillus

| species = V. alimentarius

| binomial = Virgibacillus alimentarius

| binomial_authority = Kim et al. 2011

}}

Virgibacillus alimentarius is a bacterium first isolated from a traditional Korean food, hence its name. It is Gram-positive, rod-shaped, motile, endospore-forming and halophilic, with J18^T (=KACC 14624^T =JCM 16994^T) as the type strain.{{cite journal|last1=Kim|first1=J.|last2=Jung|first2=M.-J.|last3=Roh|first3=S. W.|last4=Nam|first4=Y.-D.|last5=Shin|first5=K.-S.|last6=Bae|first6=J.-W.|title=Virgibacillus alimentarius sp. nov., isolated from a traditional Korean food|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|volume=61|issue=12|year=2011|pages=2851–2855|issn=1466-5026|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.028191-0|pmid=21239563|doi-access=free}}