Name: Flectobacillus glomeratus McGuire et al. 1988

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: glo.me.ra’tus. L. masc. part. adj. glomeratus, to form into a ball

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ACAM 171; ACM 3055; ATCC 43844; CIP 103112; LMG 13858; UQM 3055

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: M58775 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: McGuire AJ, Franzmann PD, McMeekin TA. Flectobacillus glomeratus sp. nov., a curved, nonmotile, pigmented bacterium isolated from antarctic marine environments. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1987; 9:265-272.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 24. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1988; 38:136-137.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Polaribacter glomeratus (McGuire et al. 1988) Gosink et al. 1998

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Polaribacter glomeratus (McGuire et al. 1988) Gosink et al. 1998	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • ❗ Flectobacillus glomeratus is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Flectobacillus.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 1 time in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 In Validation List no. 24, the type strain ACAM 171 is incorrectly cited as ACAM 171T. Publication: Euzeby JP, Kudo T. Corrigenda to the validation lists. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:1933-1938.

Parent taxon: Flectobacillus Larkin et al. 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: McGuire AJ, Franzmann PD, McMeekin TA. Flectobacillus glomeratus sp. nov., a curved, nonmotile, pigmented bacterium isolated from antarctic marine environments. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 1987; 9:265-272.

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