Species ***Flavobacterium* *frigidarium***

Name: Flavobacterium frigidarium Humphry et al. 2001

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fri.gid.ar.i’um. L. neut. n. frigidarium, one who bathes in cold water

Gender: neuter

Type strain: A2i; ATCC 700810; CIP 107124; DSM 17623; NBRC 102676; NCIMB 13737

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16S rRNA gene: AF162266 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Humphry DR, George A, Black GW, Cummings SP. Flavobacterium frigidarium sp. nov., an aerobic, psychrophilic, xylanolytic and laminarinolytic bacterium from Antarctica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1235-1243.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1621-1623.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Notes:
- The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.07411 (N = 95).
- The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: 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.
- The etymology of the specific epithet fridigarium should read L. neut. adj. frigidarium belonging to the cold (not L. n. frigidarium one who bathes in cold water as cited in the paper by Humphry et al. 2001). Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

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

Assigned by: Humphry DR, George A, Black GW, Cummings SP. Flavobacterium frigidarium sp. nov., an aerobic, psychrophilic, xylanolytic and laminarinolytic bacterium from Antarctica. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1235-1243.

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Species Flavobacterium frigidarium

Species ***Flavobacterium* *frigidarium***