Name: Chloroflexus aggregans Hanada et al. 1995

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ag’gre.gans. L. inf. v. aggregare, to flock or band together; L. part. adj. aggregans, assembling, aggregating

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 9485; MD-66

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: D32255 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Hanada S, Hiraishi A, Shimada K, Matsuura K. Chloroflexus aggregans sp. nov., a filamentous phototrophic bacterium which forms dense cell aggregates by active gliding movement. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:676-681.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 45, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:364-365.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 20 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Nouioui et al. (2018). Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007.

Parent taxon: Chloroflexus Pierson and Castenholz 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Hanada S, Hiraishi A, Shimada K, Matsuura K. Chloroflexus aggregans sp. nov., a filamentous phototrophic bacterium which forms dense cell aggregates by active gliding movement. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:676-681.

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