Species Flavobacterium aquatilis

Name: Flavobacterium aquatilis (Frankland and Frankland 1889) Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Bacillus aquatilis" Frankland and Frankland 1889

Pronunciation, gender: a-KWA-ti-lis, neuter

Type strain: ATCC 11947; CCUG 29304; CIP 103744; CIP 55.141; DSM 1132; IFO 15052; JCM 20475; LMG 2952; LMG 4008; LMG 4427; NBRC 15052; NRRL B-14834; VKM B-1173

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: M62797 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Bergey DH, Harrison FC, Breed RS, Hammer BW, Huntoon FM. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 1st ed. The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1923.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: inaccurate spelling

Taxonomic status: misspelling (and not recommended for medical use)

Correct name: Flavobacterium aquatile corrig. (Frankland and Frankland 1889) Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Flavobacterium aquatile corrig. (Frankland and Frankland 1889) Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)	corrected spelling of name, validly published under the ICNP
"Bacillus aquatilis" Frankland and Frankland 1889	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

Notes:
- 😷 The taxon name shown here has no assigned risk group, but is the original uncorrected spelling of Flavobacterium aquatile corrig. (Frankland and Frankland 1889) Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980), which has a risk group (Swiss Confederation) above 1. These are therefore two spellings of the same name that should be treated identically for practical purposes.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 0 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙅 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as a synonym of the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the species itself.

Parent taxon: Flavobacterium Bergey et al. 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Bergey DH, Harrison FC, Breed RS, Hammer BW, Huntoon FM. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 1st ed. The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1923.

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Record number: 28069

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Species Flavobacterium aquatilis