Etymology:
Cy.to.pha.ga. Gr. neut. n.kytos, hollow, vessel, jar, and in biology a cell; Gr. inf. v.phageîn, to eat; N.L. fem. n.Cytophaga, devourer of cell, intended to mean devourer of cell wall, cellulose digester
Effective publication:
Winogradsky S. Études sur la microbiologie du sol - sur la dégradation de la cellulose dans le sol. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur (Paris) 1929; 43:549-633.
IJSEM list:
Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
Nomenclatural status:
validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status:
correct name
Risk group:
1
Emendations:
Nakagawa and Yamasato 1996
Nakagawa Y, Yamasato K. Emendation of the genus Cytophaga and transfer of Cytophaga agarovorans and Cytophaga salmonicolor to Marinilabilia gen. nov.: phylogenetic analysis of the Flavobacterium-Cytophaga complex. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1996; 46:599-603.
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 46, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:838. Notes:
⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 2 species from the genus.
Notes:
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the class Cytophagia Nakagawa 2012.Publication:
Nakagawa Y. Class IV. Cytophagia class. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 370.
🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order Cytophagales Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Leadbetter ER. Family I. Cytophagaceae Stanier 1940, 630, emend. mut. char. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 8th ed., The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 99-127.
🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Flexibacteraceae" Garrity and Holt 2001.Publication:
Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this genus to the superclass "Bacteroidia" Cavalier-Smith 2020.Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753.
🧕 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the class Cytophagia Nakagawa 2012.Publication:
Nakagawa Y. Class IV. Cytophagia class. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 370.
🧕 Leadbetter (1974) assigned this genus to the order Cytophagales Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980).Publication:
Leadbetter ER. Family I. Cytophagaceae Stanier 1940, 630, emend. mut. char. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 8th ed., The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 99-127.
🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cvtophaga"; "Cycophaga"; "Cyfophaga"; "Cyiophaga"; "Cylophaga"; "Cymphaga"; "Cyophaga"; "Cyrophaga"; "Cytaphaga"; "Cythophaga"; "Cytnphaga"; "Cytoiihaga"; "Cytopbaga"; "Cytopha"; "Cytophaqa"; "Cytophoga"; "Cytophuga"; "Cytoplaga"; "Cytoplhaga"; "Cytopliaga"; "Cytoplzaga"; "Cytrophaga"; "Cytuphaga"; "Cywphaga"; "Cyzophaga".
🖹 Minimal standards for the description of new taxa in this group were published in 2002.Publication:
Bernardet JF, Nakagawa Y, Holmes B. Proposed minimal standards for describing new taxa of the family Flavobacteriaceae and emended description of the family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1049-1070.
🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.Publication:
Anonymous NN. International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-Like Bacteria: Minutes of the Meetings, 4 and 6 July 1994, Prague, Czech Republic. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1997; 47:593-594.
🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.Publication:
Bernardet JF. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-like bacteria. Minutes of the meetings, 16 and 17 August 1999, Sydney, Australia. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2002; 52:1071-1073.
🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP.Publication:
J.-F.Bernardet. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-like bacteria: Minutes of the meetings, 16 and 17 August 1999, Sydney, Australia. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2002; 52:1071-1073.
💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Suzuki et al. (2001), Nedashkovskaya et al. (2014). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 25; ATCC: 22; JCM: 17; NBRC: 15; IFO: 15; LMG: 14; CIP: 14; NCIMB: 13; CCUG: 6; NRRL: 2.
😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1".
🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "CTFG" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer.Publication:
Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.
Subdivision:
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2 Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 23 Total number of child taxa: 32