Genus Flagellimonas

Name: Flagellimonas Bae et al. 2007

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Fla.gel.li’mo.nas. L. neut. n. flagellum, a whip and in bacteriology, a flagellum; L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Flagellimonas, a bacterium motile by means of a flagellum which is unusual for a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Flagellimonad-), fla-gel-LI-mo-nas

Type species: Flagellimonas eckloniae Bae et al. 2007

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bae SS, Kwon KK, Yang SH, Lee HS, Kim SJ, Lee JH. Flagellimonas eckloniae gen. nov., sp. nov., a mesophilic marine bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from the rhizosphere of Ecklonia kurome. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1050-1054. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1675-1676.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Muricauda Bruns et al. 2001	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
Allomuricauda Deshmukh and Oren 2023	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
Spongiibacterium Yoon and Oh 2012	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- Yoon and Oh 2012 Yoon BJ, Oh DC. Spongiibacterium flavum gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the marine sponge Halichondria oshoro, and emended descriptions of the genera Croceitalea and Flagellimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1158-1164. 🇰🇷 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1723-1724.
- Choi et al. 2018 Choi S, Lee JH, Kang JW, Choe HN, Seong CN. Flagellimonas aquimarina sp. nov., and transfer of Spongiibacterium flavum Yoon and Oh 2012 and S. pacificum Gao et al. 2015 to the genus Flagellimonas Bae et al. 2007 as Flagellimonas flava comb. nov. and F. pacifica comb. nov., respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3266-3272. 🇰🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:10-12.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 3 new species in the genus.
- Molinari Novoa et al. 2024 Novoa EAM, Deshmukh UB, Oren A. Reclassification of Allomuricauda and Muricauda species as members of the genus Flagellimonas Bae et al. 2007 and emended description of the genus Flagellimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6286. 🇮🇱 Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 74, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6301.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 36 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Muricauda Bruns et al. 2001. 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. 🇩🇪
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Allomuricauda Deshmukh and Oren 2023. Publication: Deshmukh UB, Oren A. Proposal of Allomuricauda gen. nov. and Allofranklinella gen. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic generic names Muricauda and Franklinella, respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6023. 🇮🇱
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Flagellimonasa".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Moon et al. (2023), Wang et al. (2022), Su et al. (2017), Zhao et al. (2022), Won et al. (2025). 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: KCTC: 34; MCCC: 27; JCM: 17; KACC: 10; DSM: 8; LMG: 7; KCCM: 4; CGMCC: 3; CCUG: 2; GDMCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 50
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 51
Total number of child taxa: 53

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Flagellimonas abyssi (Wang et al. 2022) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas aequoris (Guo et al. 2020) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas algarum Yoon et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Flagellimonas algicida" Wang et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
Flagellimonas algicola Kim et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas alginilytica corrig. Yu et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas alginolytica Yu et al. 2026	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
Flagellimonas allohymeniacidonis Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas alvinocaridis (Liu et al. 2020) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas amoyensis (Li et al. 2019) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas amphidinii (Chen et al. 2021) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas antarctica (Wu et al. 2013) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Flagellimonas aquimarina Choi et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas aurea (Zhao et al. 2022) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas baculiformis Wang et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas beolgyonensis (Lee et al. 2012) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas chongwuensis (Chen et al. 2022) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas cixiensis Yu et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas crocea Wang et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas eckloniae Bae et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas flava (Yoon and Oh 2012) Choi et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas flavescens (Yoon et al. 2005) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas hadalis (Zhang et al. 2020) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas halotolerans Guo et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas hymeniacidonis Shin and Park 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas indica (Zhang et al. 2018) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas iocasae (Liu et al. 2018) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas lutaonensis (Arun et al. 2009) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas lutimaris (Yoon et al. 2008) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas marina (Su et al. 2017) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas marinaquae Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas maritima Kang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas meishanensis (Sun et al. 2023) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas meridianipacifica Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas myxillae (Moon et al. 2023) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas nanhaiensis (Dang et al. 2019) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas oceanensis (Guo et al. 2020) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas oceani (Dong et al. 2020) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas ochracea (Kim et al. 2020) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas okinawensis (Cao et al. 2023) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas olearia (Hwang et al. 2009) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas onchidii (Liang et al. 2021) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas pacifica (Gao et al. 2015) Choi et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas pelagia Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas profundi (Zhao et al. 2022) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas rhodophyticola Won et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas ruestringensis (Bruns et al. 2001) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas sediminis (Zhu et al. 2021) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas spongiicola (Shin and Park 2023) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas taeanensis (Kim et al. 2013) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas ulvae Won et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas yonaguniensis (Cao et al. 2023) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flagellimonas zhangzhouensis (Yang et al. 2013) Molinari Novoa et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992

Assigned by: Bae SS, Kwon KK, Yang SH, Lee HS, Kim SJ, Lee JH. Flagellimonas eckloniae gen. nov., sp. nov., a mesophilic marine bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from the rhizosphere of Ecklonia kurome. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1050-1054. 🇰🇷

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Genus Flagellimonas