Name: "Flexibacterium" Park et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Fle.xi.bac.te’ri.um. L. masc. perf. part. flexus, bent, winding; from L. v. flecto, to bend, to curve; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. n. Flexibacterium, a flexible rod

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Flexibacteri-), fle-xi-bak-TE-ri-um

Type species: "Flexibacterium corallicola" Park et al. 2025

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Original publication: Park MJ, Kim J, Kim YJ, Yu J, Jin H, Woo S, Zo YG, Kwon KK. Genome-based reclassification of the family Stappiaceae and assessment of environmental forcing with the report of two novel taxa, Flexibacterium corallicola gen. nov., sp. nov., and Nesiotobacter zosterae sp. nov., isolated from coral and seagrass. PLoS One 2025; 20:e0322500.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Flevibacterium"; "Flexihacteriue".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 1; JCM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Flexibacterium corallicola" Park et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Stappiaceae Hördt et al. 2020

Assigned by: Park MJ, Kim J, Kim YJ, Yu J, Jin H, Woo S, Zo YG, Kwon KK. Genome-based reclassification of the family Stappiaceae and assessment of environmental forcing with the report of two novel taxa, Flexibacterium corallicola gen. nov., sp. nov., and Nesiotobacter zosterae sp. nov., isolated from coral and seagrass. PLoS One 2025; 20:e0322500.

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Record number: 65384