Genus Flavitalea

Name: Flavitalea Wang et al. 2011

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Fla.vi.ta’le.a. L. masc. adj. flavus, yellow; L. fem. n. talea, a slender staff, a rod; N.L. fem. n. Flavitalea, a yellow-coloured rod

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Flavitale-), fla-wi-TA-le-a

Type species: Flavitalea populi Wang et al. 2011

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Wang Y, Cai F, Tang Y, Dai J, Qi H, Rahman E, Peng F, Fang C. Flavitalea populi gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from soil of a Euphrates poplar (Populus euphratica) forest. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1554-1560. 🇨🇳

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2331-2332.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Emendations:
- Zhang et al. 2013 Zhang L, Qin B, Jia Z, Wei G. Flavitalea gansuensis sp. nov., isolated from soil from an arid area, and emended descriptions of the genus Flavitalea and Flavitalea populi. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:490-495. 🇨🇳 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1581-1583.
  Notes:
  - 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the associated publication is not functional any more.
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.
- Liu et al. 2019 Liu MJ, Jin CZ, Ersiman A, Park DJ, Kim CJ. Flavitalea flava sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from a soil sample, and emended description of the genus Flavitalea. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2019; 112:275-281. 🇰🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 30. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:1850-1851.
  Notes:
  - ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Kim et al. (2016). 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: CCTCC: 3; KCTC: 3; KACC: 2; JCM: 1; NRRL: 1; ACCC: 1; NBRC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 6

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Flavitalea antarctica Wei et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flavitalea flava Liu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flavitalea gansuensis Zhang et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Flavitalea plasmicola" Park et al. 2026	not validly published	preferred name
Flavitalea populi Wang et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Flavitalea soli Kim et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Chitinophagaceae Kämpfer et al. 2011

Assigned by: Munoz R, Rossello-Mora R, Amann R. Revised phylogeny of Bacteroidetes and proposal of sixteen new taxa and two new combinations including Rhodothermaeota phyl. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2016; 39:281-296. 🇪🇸

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