Name: Flavisolibacter tropicus Lee et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: tro’pi.cus. L. masc. adj. tropicus, tropical, of or pertaining to the tropic(s)

Gender: masculine

Type strain: JCM 19972; KCTC 42070; LCS9

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KJ461518 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Lee JJ, Kang MS, Kim GS, Lee CS, Lim S, Lee J, Roh SH, Kang H, Ha JM, Bae S, et al. Flavisolibacter tropicus sp. nov., isolated from tropical soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3413-3419.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4921-4923.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• 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:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Flavisolibacter Yoon and Im 2007

Assigned by: Lee JJ, Kang MS, Kim GS, Lee CS, Lim S, Lee J, Roh SH, Kang H, Ha JM, Bae S, et al. Flavisolibacter tropicus sp. nov., isolated from tropical soil. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3413-3419.

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Record number: 794560