Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Flavobacterium tilapiae

Name: Flavobacterium tilapiae Chen et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ti.la’pi.ae. N.L. fem. n. Tilapia, the scientific name of a genus of tilapiine cichlid fish; N.L. gen. fem. n. tilapiae, of tilapia, referring to the isolation of the type strain from a culture pond for Tilapia

Gender: neuter

Type strain: BCRC 80262; KCTC 23312; Ruye-71

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16S rRNA gene: HQ111525 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Chen WM, Huang WC, Young CC, Sheu SY. Flavobacterium tilapiae sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater pond, and emended descriptions of Flavobacterium defluvii and Flavobacterium johnsoniae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:827-834.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1939-1941.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

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

Assigned by: Chen WM, Huang WC, Young CC, Sheu SY. Flavobacterium tilapiae sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater pond, and emended descriptions of Flavobacterium defluvii and Flavobacterium johnsoniae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:827-834.

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Record number: 790610
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