Genus Flavisolibacter

Name: Flavisolibacter Yoon and Im 2007

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Fla.vi.so.li.bac’ter. L. masc. adj. flavus, yellow; L. neut. n. solum, soil (can be noun or adjective); N.L. masc. n. bacter, a rod; N.L. masc. n. Flavisolibacter, a yellow, rod-shaped bacterium from soil

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Flavisolibacter-), fla-wi-so-li-BAK-ter

Type species: Flavisolibacter ginsengiterrae Yoon and Im 2007

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yoon MH, Im WT. Flavisolibacter ginsengiterrae gen. nov., sp. nov. and Flavisolibacter ginsengisoli sp. nov., isolated from ginseng cultivating soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1834-1839. 🇰🇷

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 57, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:2451-2452.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Baik et al. 2014 Baik KS, Kim MS, Lee JH, Lee SS, Im WT, Seong CN. Flavisolibacter rigui sp. nov., isolated from freshwater of an artificial reservoir and emended description of the genus Flavisolibacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:4038-4042. 🇰🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:739-740.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Lee et al. 2016 Lee JJ, Kang MS, Kim GS, Lee CS, Lim S, Lee J, Roh SH, Kang H, Ha JM, Bae S, et al. Flavisolibacter tropicus sp. nov., isolated from tropical soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3413-3419. 🇰🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4921-4923.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
  • Kim et al. 2018 Kim DU, Lee H, Lee S, Kim SG, Park AY, Ahn JH, Ka JO. Flavisolibacter metallilatus sp. nov., isolated from an automotive air conditioning system and emended description of the genus Flavisolibacter. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:917-923. 🇰🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1823-1824.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Flavosolibacter".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Lee et al. (2019). 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: 11; JCM: 5; KACC: 4; NBRC: 3; DSM: 2; KEMB: 1; CGMCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 10
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 10
Total number of child taxa: 12

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Flavisolibacter aluminii Lee et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Flavisolibacter carri" Lee et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name
    Flavisolibacter galbus Maeng et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flavisolibacter ginsengisoli Yoon and Im 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flavisolibacter ginsengiterrae Yoon and Im 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flavisolibacter ginsenosidimutans Zhao et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flavisolibacter longurius Maeng et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flavisolibacter metallilatus Kim et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flavisolibacter nicotianae Li et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flavisolibacter rigui Baik et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Flavisolibacter swuensis" Joo et al. 2015	not validly published	preferred name
    Flavisolibacter tropicus Lee et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Chitinophagaceae Kämpfer et al. 2011

Assigned by: Kampfer P, Lodders N, Falsen E. Hydrotalea flava gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the phylum Bacteroidetes and allocation of the genera Chitinophaga, Sediminibacterium, Lacibacter, Flavihumibacter, Flavisolibacter, Niabella, Niastella, Segetibacter, Parasegetibacter, Terrimonas, Ferruginibacter, Filimonas and Hydrotalea to the family Chitinophagaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:518-523. 🇩🇪

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