Species ***Chryseobacterium* *formosense***

Name: Chryseobacterium formosense Young et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: for.mo.sen’se. N.L. neut. adj. formosense, pertaining to Formosa (Taiwan)

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: k^hry-se-o-bak-TE-ri-um for-mo-SEN-se, neuter

Type strain: CC-H3-2; CCUG 49271; CIP 108367; DSM 17452

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ715377 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Young CC, Kampfer P, Shen FT, Lai WA, Arun AB. Chryseobacterium formosense sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Lactuca sativa L. (garden lettuce). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:423-426. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:987-991.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

Emendations:
- Hahnke et al. 2016 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. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.
- Heidler von Heilborn et al. 2022 Heidler von Heilborn D, Nover LL, Weber M, Holzl G, Gisch N, Waldhans C, Mittler M, Kreyenschmidt J, Woehle C, Huttel B, et al. Polar lipid characterization and description of Chryseobacterium capnotolerans sp. nov., isolated from high CO2-containing atmosphere and emended descriptions of the genus Chryseobacterium, and the species C. balustinum, C. daecheongense, C. formosense, C. gleum, C. indologenes, C. joostei, C. scophthalmum and C. ureilyticum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5372. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 72, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:5476.
  Notes:
  - 😢 The terminology used by the authors is in line with many other taxonomic studies and does not negatively affect their main results; some improvements may nevertheless be possible. Contrasting the term "chemotaxonomic" with "phenotypic" is not recommended. Using the term "phylogenetic data" (or equivalent) for sequence data is not advocated. See the LPSN phylogeny page for details.

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 4 times in PubMed until 2026-06-11.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.
- 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. — 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). 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. 🇩🇪

Parent taxon: Chryseobacterium Vandamme et al. 1994

Assigned by: Young CC, Kampfer P, Shen FT, Lai WA, Arun AB. Chryseobacterium formosense sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Lactuca sativa L. (garden lettuce). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:423-426. 🇩🇪

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Species Chryseobacterium formosense

Species ***Chryseobacterium* *formosense***