Genus Psychroflexus

Name: Psychroflexus Bowman et al. 1999

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Psy.chro.fle’xus. Gr. masc. adj. psychros, cold; L. masc. perf. part. flexus, bend, curve; N.L. masc. n. Psychroflexus, cold bend

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Psychroflex-), psy-k^hro-FLE-xus

Type species: Psychroflexus torquis Bowman et al. 1999

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

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 (Reading) 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 under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Notes:
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Psychrofiexus"; "Psychrojlexus".
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Zhong et al. (2020). 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.02845 (N = 5).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 9; DSM: 6; CCUG: 4; ATCC: 4; ACAM: 3; LMG: 3; CIP: 3; CGMCC: 3; JCM: 3; GDMCC: 3.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 16
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 16
Total number of child taxa: 18

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Psychroflexus aestuariivivens Park et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus aurantiacus Wu et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus curvus Lu et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus gondwanense (Dobson et al. 1993) Bowman et al. 1999	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
Psychroflexus gondwanensis corrig. (Dobson et al. 1993) Bowman et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus halocasei Seiler et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Psychroflexus lacisalsi" Zhang et al. 2010	not validly published	preferred name
Psychroflexus longus Lu et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus maritimus Zhong et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus montanilacus Lu et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus planctonicus Zhong et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus salarius Chun et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus salinarum Yoon et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus saliphilus Jin et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus salis Zhong et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus sediminis Chen et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus torquis Bowman et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Psychroflexus tropicus Donachie et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	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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