Name: Flexibacter Soriano 1945 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Fle.xi.bac.ter. L. masc. perf. part. flexus, bent, winding; from L. v. flecto, to bend, to curve; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Flexibacter, intended to mean flexible rod

Gender: masculine (stem: Flexibacter-)

Type species: Flexibacter flexilis Soriano 1945 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Soriano S. Un nuevo orden de bacterias: Flexibacteriales. Ciencia e Investigacion (Buenos Aires) 1945; 1:92-93.

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

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.
    Notes:
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 5 species from the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of 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.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Flexibacteraceae García-López et al. 2020. Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.
  • 🧕 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the family Cytophagaceae Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Euzéby J, Whitman WB. Phylum XIV. Bacteroidetes phyl. 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. 25.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Ffexibacter"; "Flecibacter"; "Flecsibacter"; "Flexibacfer"; "Flexibactera"; "Flexihacter"; "Flezmibacter"; "Floscibacter"; "Flwbacter"; "Hexibacter"; "Plexibacter". — 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Flexibacteria".
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bowman JP, Bernardet JF, Frandsen Lau E. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Aerobic Bacteroidetes (formerly Flavobacterium and Cytophaga-like bacteria). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:6017-6020.
  • 🧔 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.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 16; NBRC: 15; ATCC: 15; IFO: 14; CIP: 11; JCM: 7; NCIMB: 5; CCUG: 3; VKM: 3; KCTC: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "FXBT" 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: 17
Total number of child taxa: 21

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Flexibacter aggregans (Lewin 1969) Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Flexibacter alginoliquefaciens" Katayama et al. 1985	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Flexibacter aurantiacus Lewin 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flexibacter canadensis Christensen 1980	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Flexibacter chinensis" Reichenbach 1989	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Flexibacter columnaris (ex Davis 1922) Bernardet and Grimont 1989	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flexibacter elegans (ex Lewin 1969) Reichenbach 1989	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flexibacter filiformis (ex Solntseva 1940) Reichenbach 1989	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flexibacter flexilis Soriano 1945 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Flexibacter giganteus" Soriano 1945	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Flexibacter japonensis Fujita et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flexibacter litoralis Lewin 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flexibacter maritimus Wakabayashi et al. 1986	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flexibacter ovolyticus Hansen et al. 1992	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flexibacter polymorphus Lewin 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flexibacter psychrophilus (ex Borg 1960) Bernardet and Grimont 1989	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flexibacter roseolus Lewin 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flexibacter ruber Lewin 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flexibacter sancti Lewin 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    "Flexibacter topostinus" Suzuki et al. 1990	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Flexibacter tractuosus (Lewin 1969) Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Flexibacteraceae García-López et al. 2020

Assigned by: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

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