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Species Flavobacterium longum

Name: Flavobacterium longum Fujii et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: lon’gum L. neut. adj. longum, long in shape, referring to the filamentous cellular morphology that occurs in broth culture

Gender: neuter

Type strains: DSM 27077; JCM 19141; YIT 12745

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16S rRNA gene: AB795014 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Fujii D, Nagai F, Watanabe Y, Shirasawa Y. Flavobacterium longum sp. nov. and Flavobacterium urocaniciphilum sp. nov., isolated from a wastewater treatment plant, and emended descriptions of Flavobacterium caeni and Flavobacterium terrigena. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1488-1494.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:2509-2511.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

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

Assigned by: Fujii D, Nagai F, Watanabe Y, Shirasawa Y. Flavobacterium longum sp. nov. and Flavobacterium urocaniciphilum sp. nov., isolated from a wastewater treatment plant, and emended descriptions of Flavobacterium caeni and Flavobacterium terrigena. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1488-1494.

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