Name: Flavobacteriales Bernardet 2012

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: Fla.vo.bac.te.ri.a’les. N.L. neut. n. Flavobacterium, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Flavobacteriales, the Flavobacterium order

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: fla-wo-bak-te-ri-A-les, feminine

Type genus: Flavobacterium Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Bernardet J-F. Order I. Flavobacteriales ord. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 105. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 143. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1-4.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 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. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the inclusion of 7 families in the order.

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Bowman (2020) assigned the family Vicingaceae Bowman 2021 to this order. Publication: Bowman JP. Out From the Shadows - Resolution of the Taxonomy of the Family Cryomorphaceae. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:795. 🇦🇺
  • 🧒 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned the genus Flavobacterium Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980) to this order. Publication: Bernardet J-F. Order I. Flavobacteriales ord. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 105. 🇺🇸
  • 🧒 Li et al. (2024) assigned the family Sanyastnellaceae Li et al. 2024 to this order. Publication: Li Q, Liu C, Xie F, Lyu L, Zhang S, Li J. Coralliovum pocilloporae gen. nov., sp. nov. and Sanyastnella coralliicola gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from coral tissue: proposal of two new families, Coralliovaceae fam. nov. and Sanyastnellaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6427. 🇨🇳
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Flearibacteriales".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Bernardet et al. (2002). 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 BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 855; JCM: 552; DSM: 469; NBRC: 328; LMG: 324; MCCC: 278; KACC: 238; CCUG: 211; CIP: 197; CGMCC: 187.
  • 🧍 In Validation List No. 143, the year of publication of Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4 was erroneously cited as 2010. The correct year of publication should be 2011. Publication: Erratum. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2012; 62:1016. 🇩🇪

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 8
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13
Total number of child taxa: 15

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Blattabacteriaceae Kambhampati 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Crocinitomicaceae Munoz et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Cryomorphaceae Bowman et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    [Flavobacteriales, not assigned to family]	artificial parent node of taxa incertae sedis
    "Halocolaceae" Hu et al. 2026	not validly published	preferred name
    Ichthyobacteriaceae Takano et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Luteibaculaceae Bowman 2021	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Owenweeksiaceae Huang et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Parvicellaceae Lucena et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Phaeocystidibacteraceae Huang et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Salibacteraceae Bowman 2021	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Schleiferiaceae Albuquerque et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Vicingaceae Bowman 2021	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Weeksellaceae García-López et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Flavobacteriia Bernardet 2012

Assigned by: Bernardet J-F. Class II. Flavobacteriia class. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 105. 🇺🇸

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