Genus Flexilinea
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Flexilinea Sun et al. 2016, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Flexilinea flocculi Sun et al. 2016.
Etymology: L. masc. n. flexus, bending; L. fem. n. linea, a line; N.L. fem. n. Flexilinea, a flexible line-shaped organism.
Valid publication: SUN, L., TOYONAGA, M., OHASHI, A., MATSUURA, N., TOURLOUSSE, D. M., MENG, X. Y., TAMAKI, H., HANADA, S., CRUZ, R., YAMAGUCHI, T. and SEKIGUCHI, Y. 2016. Isolation and characterization of Flexilinea flocculi gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous, anaerobic bacterium belonging to the class Anaerolineae in the phylum Chloroflexi. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 988-996.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Flexilinea flocculi Sun et al. 2016, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) TC1=JCM 30897=CGMCC 1.5202.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: LC049585.
Whole-genome sequence accession no. for the type strain: -.
Etymology: N.L. dim. gen. n. flocculi, of a small floc.
Source: Industrial.
Valid publication: SUN, L., TOYONAGA, M., OHASHI, A., MATSUURA, N., TOURLOUSSE, D. M., MENG, X. Y., TAMAKI, H., HANADA, S., CRUZ, R., YAMAGUCHI, T. and SEKIGUCHI, Y. 2016. Isolation and characterization of Flexilinea flocculi gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous, anaerobic bacterium belonging to the class Anaerolineae in the phylum Chloroflexi. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 66, 988-996.
Original article in IJSEM Online