Name: Cytophaga pectinovora (ex Dorey 1959) Reichenbach 1989

Category: Species

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

Etymology: pec.ti.no.vo’ra. N.L. neut. n. pectinum, pectin, methylated polygalacturonic acids in plant cell walls; L. inf. v. vorare, to devour; N.L. fem. adj. pectinovora, pectin-devouring

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 19366; Dorey 81; DSM 6368; NCIB 9059

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: D12669 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: Flavobacterium pectinovorum (Reichenbach 1989) Bernardet et al. 1996

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Flavobacterium pectinovorum (Reichenbach 1989) Bernardet et al. 1996	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • Cytophaga pectinovora is the correct name 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.
  • In Validation List no. 31, Cytophaga pectinovora is erroneously proposed as a new species. Publication: Euzeby JP, Kudo T. Corrigenda to the validation lists. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1933-1938.
  • 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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