Name: Thermoflexibacter Hahnke et al. 2017

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Ther.mo.fle.xi.bac’ter. Gr. masc. adj. thermos, hot; L. masc. perf. part. flexus, bent, winding; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; from Gr. neut. n. baktron, little stick or rod; N.L. masc. n. Thermoflexibacter, a thermophilic flexible rod

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Thermoflexibacter-), t^her-mo-fle-xi-BAK-ter

Type species: Thermoflexibacter ruber (Lewin 1969) Hahnke et al. 2017

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective 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.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 175. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1095-1098.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Thermoflexibacteraceae García-López et al. 2020. Publication: 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.
  • 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Flexibacter Soriano 1945 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Lewin RA. A classification of flexibacteria. J Gen Microbiol 1969; 58:189-206.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 1; IFO: 1; DSM: 1; LMG: 1; NBRC: 1.

Subdivision:

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

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Thermoflexibacter ruber (Lewin 1969) Hahnke et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Thermoflexibacteraceae García-López et al. 2020

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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