Evansella clarkii is a species of Gram-positive, aerobic, rod-shaped, endospore-forming, alkaliphilic bacterium. It was originally described as Bacillus clarkii in 1995. The specific epithet clarkii honours American bacteriologist Francis E. Clark. The type strain is PN-102T (= DSM 8720T = ATCC 700162T = LMG 17947T).
In 2020, the species was transferred to the genus Evansella on the basis of phylogenomic and comparative genomic analyses.
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Evansella clarkii at LPSN Type strain of Evansella clarkii at BacDive