Name: Flavilitoribacter García-López et al. 2020

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Fla.vi.li.to.ri.bac’ter. L. masc. adj. flavus, yellow; L. neut. n. litus (gen. litoris), sand beach; N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Flavilitoribacter, a yellow, rod-shaped bacterium from sand beach

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Flavilitoribacter-), fla-wi-li-to-ri-BAK-ter

Type species: Flavilitoribacter nigricans (Lewin 1970) García-López et al. 2020

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective 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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 193. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2960-2966.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Lewinella Sly et al. 1998. Publication: Sly LI, Taghavi M, Fegan M. Phylogenetic heterogeneity within the genus Herpetosiphon: transfer of the marine species Herpetosiphon cohaerens, Herpetosiphon nigricans and Herpetosiphon persicus to the genus Lewinella gen. nov. in the Flexibacter-Bacteroides-Cytophaga phylum. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:731-737.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Herpetosiphon Holt and Lewin 1968 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Lewin RA. New Herpetosiphon species (Flexibacterales). Can J Microbiol 1970; 16:517-520.
  • 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bowman JP, Hugo C, Nicholson A, Hahnke R, Lau EF, Holmes B, Sutcliffe I. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the taxonomy of aerobic Bacteroidota. Minutes of the online meeting 25 April 2023. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6144.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 1; NCIMB: 1; NBRC: 1; ATCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Flavilitoribacter nigricans (Lewin 1970) García-López et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Lewinellaceae Hahnke et al. 2017

Assigned by: Huang Z, Hong Q, Lai Q, Zhang Q. Portibacter marinus sp. nov., isolated from the sediment on the surface of plastics and proposal of a novel genus Neolewinella gen. nov. based on the genome-based phylogeny of the family Lewinellaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5561.

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