Name: Flectobacillus Larkin et al. 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Flec.to.ba.cil.lus. L. v. flecto, to bend, to curve; L. masc. n. bacillus, a little staff, rod; N.L. masc. n. Flectobacillus, little curved rod (sic)

Gender: masculine (stem: Flectobacill-)

Type species: Flectobacillus major (Gromov 1963) Larkin et al. 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Larkin JM, Williams PM, Taylor R. Taxonomy of the genus Microcyclus Ørskov 1928: Reintroduction and emendation of the genus Spirosoma Migula 1894 and proposal of a new genus, Flectobacillus. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1977; 27:147-156.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Raj and Maloy 1990 Raj HD, Maloy SR. Proposal of Cyclobacterium marinus gen. nov., comb. nov., for a marine bacterium previously assigned to the genus Flectobacillus. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1990; 40:337-347.
    Notes:
    • ⊖ Emendation accompanied by the removal of 1 species from the genus.
  • Ramaprasad et al. 2015 Ramaprasad EV, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Flectobacillus rhizosphaerae sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere soil of Oryza sativa (L.), and emended description of the genus Flectobacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3451-3456. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4-6.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Flectobacillaceae Lu et al. 2024. Publication: Lu H, Chen L, Huang L. Arcicella gelida sp. nov. and Arcicella lustrica sp. nov., isolated from streams in China and re-examining the taxonomic status of all the genera within the families Spirosomataceae and Cytophagaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6345.
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Flexibacteraceae" Garrity and Holt 2001. Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • 🧕 Hahnke et al. (2016) assigned this genus to the family Cytophagaceae Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003.
  • 🧕 Lu et al. (2024) assigned this genus to the family Flectobacillaceae Lu et al. 2024. Publication: Lu H, Chen L, Huang L. Arcicella gelida sp. nov. and Arcicella lustrica sp. nov., isolated from streams in China and re-examining the taxonomic status of all the genera within the families Spirosomataceae and Cytophagaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6345.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Microcyclus Ørskov 1928 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Gromov BV. A new bacterium of the genus Microcyclus. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 1963; 152:733-734.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Fleclobacillus"; "Flectobaeillus"; "Flectohacillus"; "Fleetobacillus"; "Floclobacillus"; "Floctobacillus"; "Nectobacillus".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Sheu et al. (2017). 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: 5; ATCC: 3; BCRC: 3; DSM: 2; JCM: 1; KCCM: 1; CIP: 1; VKM: 1.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "FTBC" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.
  • 🧍 On the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names and on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names (Amended Edition), the type species is incorrectly cited as Flectobacillus major Larkin et al. 1977 (sic). Publication: Euzéby JP. Corrigenda to the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names and to the amended edition of the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:1271-1272.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 7
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 10
Total number of child taxa: 10

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Flectobacillus fontis Chen et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flectobacillus glomeratus McGuire et al. 1988	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flectobacillus lacus Hwang and Cho 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flectobacillus longus Lu et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flectobacillus major (Gromov 1963) Larkin et al. 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flectobacillus marinus (Raj 1976) Borrall and Larkin 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flectobacillus pallidus Sheu et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flectobacillus rhizosphaerae Ramaprasad et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Flectobacillus rivi Lu et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flectobacillus roseus Sheu et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Spirosomataceae corrig. Larkin and Borrall 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: 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.

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