Species ***Flavobacterium* *piscis***

Name: Flavobacterium piscis Zamora et al. 2014

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pis’cis. L. gen. masc. n. piscis, of a fish

Gender: neuter

Type strain: 412R-09; CCUG 60099; CECT 7911

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HE612101 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zamora L, Vela AI, Sanchez-Porro C, Palacios MA, Moore ER, Dominguez L, Ventosa A, Fernandez-Garayzabal JF. Flavobacterium tructae sp. nov. and Flavobacterium piscis sp. nov., isolated from farmed rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:392-399.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:1459-1460.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 1

Notes:
- 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "t2". — 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 2 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.

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

Assigned by: Zamora L, Vela AI, Sanchez-Porro C, Palacios MA, Moore ER, Dominguez L, Ventosa A, Fernandez-Garayzabal JF. Flavobacterium tructae sp. nov. and Flavobacterium piscis sp. nov., isolated from farmed rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:392-399.

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Record number: 791551

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Species Flavobacterium piscis

Species ***Flavobacterium* *piscis***