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Genus Psychroflexus
Name: Psychroflexus Bowman et al. 1999
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-khro-FLE-ksus
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 (Reading) 1998; 144:1601-1609. 
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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
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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; LMG: 3; CIP: 3; JCM: 3; CGMCC: 3; ACAM: 3; GDMCC: 3.
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
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Child taxa:
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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
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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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