Name: Cytophaga aprica (ex Lewin 1969) Reichenbach 1989

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov., nom. rev.

Etymology: a’pri.ca. L. fem. adj. aprica, exposed to the sun, growing in the sunshine

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 23126; CIP 104807; IFO 15941; JL-4; JL-4 Lewin; NBRC 15941

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16S rRNA gene: AB247553 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Reichenbach H. Genus I. Cytophaga Winogradsky 1929, 577, emend. In: Staley JT, Bryant MP, Pfennig N, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 3., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1989, p. 2015-2020.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 31. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:495-497.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Flammeovirga aprica (Reichenbach 1989 ex Lewin 1969) Nakagawa et al. 1997

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Flammeovirga aprica (Reichenbach 1989 ex Lewin 1969) Nakagawa et al. 1997	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Cytophaga aprica is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Cytophaga.
  • 😷 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 0 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 In Validation List no. 31, Cytophaga aprica is erroneously proposed as a new species. — 🧍 In Validation List no. 31, the page numbers of the paper by Reichenbach 1989 are erroneously cited as 2015-2020 (sic). Publication: Euzeby JP, Kudo T. Corrigenda to the validation lists. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1933-1938.

Parent taxon: Cytophaga Winogradsky 1929 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Reichenbach H. Genus I. Cytophaga Winogradsky 1929, 577, emend. In: Staley JT, Bryant MP, Pfennig N, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 3., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1989, p. 2015-2020.

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