Species ***Flavobacterium* *indicum***

Name: Flavobacterium indicum Saha and Chakrabarti 2006

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: in’di.cum. L. neut. adj. indicum, pertaining to India, where the bacterial strain was isolated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 17447; GPTSA100-9; MTCC 6936

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AY904351 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Saha P, Chakrabarti T. Flavobacterium indicum sp. nov., isolated from warm spring water in Assam, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2617-2621.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:199-200.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

Notes:
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.03649 (N = 127).
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 8 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.
- 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: 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.
- 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by Hahnke et al. (2016). 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.

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

Assigned by: Saha P, Chakrabarti T. Flavobacterium indicum sp. nov., isolated from warm spring water in Assam, India. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2617-2621.

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Species Flavobacterium indicum

Species ***Flavobacterium* *indicum***