Genus Psychroflexus

Name: Psychroflexus Bowman et al. 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Psy.chro’flex.us Gr. adj. psychros, cold; L. masc. n. flexus, bend, curve; N.L. masc. n. Psychroflexus, cold bend

Type species: Psychroflexus torquis Bowman et al. 1999

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

Effective publication: Bowman JP, McCammon SA, Lewis T, Skerratt JH, Brown JL, Nichols DS, McMeekin TA. Psychroflexus torquis gen. nov., sp. nov., a psychrophilic species from Antarctic sea ice, and reclassification of Flavobacterium gondwanense (Dobson et al. 1993) as Psychroflexus gondwanense gen. nov., comb. nov. Microbiology 1998; 144:1601-1609.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 68. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1999; 49:1-3.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 11
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 11
Total number of child taxa: 13

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Psychroflexus aestuariivivens Park et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
Psychroflexus gondwanense (sic) (Dobson et al. 1993) Bowman et al. 1999	misspelling	synonym
Psychroflexus gondwanensis corrig. (Dobson et al. 1993) Bowman et al. 1999	validly published	correct name
Psychroflexus halocasei Seiler et al. 2012	validly published	correct name
"Psychroflexus lacisalsi" Zhang et al. 2010	not validly published
Psychroflexus planctonicus Zhong et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
Psychroflexus salarius Chun et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
Psychroflexus salinarum Yoon et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
Psychroflexus saliphilus Jin et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
Psychroflexus salis Zhong et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
Psychroflexus sediminis Chen et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
Psychroflexus torquis Bowman et al. 1999	validly published	correct name
Psychroflexus tropicus Donachie et al. 2004	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992

Assigned by: Bernardet JF, Nakagawa Y, Holmes B. Proposed minimal standards for describing new taxa of the family Flavobacteriaceae and emended description of the family. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1049-1070.

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