Name: Flexilinea flocculi Sun et al. 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: floc’cu.li. L. gen. masc. n. flocculi, of a small floc

Gender: feminine

Type strain: CGMCC 1.5202; JCM 30897; TC 1

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: LC049585 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sun L, Toyonaga M, Ohashi A, Matsuura N, Tourlousse DM, Meng XY, Tamaki H, Hanada S, Cruz R, Yamaguchi T, et al. Isolation and characterization of Flexilinea flocculi gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous, anaerobic bacterium belonging to the class Anaerolineae in the phylum Chloroflexi. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:988-996.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1916-1919.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Flexilinea Sun et al. 2016. Publication: Sun L, Toyonaga M, Ohashi A, Matsuura N, Tourlousse DM, Meng XY, Tamaki H, Hanada S, Cruz R, Yamaguchi T, et al. Isolation and characterization of Flexilinea flocculi gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous, anaerobic bacterium belonging to the class Anaerolineae in the phylum Chloroflexi. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:988-996.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Flexilinea Sun et al. 2016

Assigned by: Sun L, Toyonaga M, Ohashi A, Matsuura N, Tourlousse DM, Meng XY, Tamaki H, Hanada S, Cruz R, Yamaguchi T, et al. Isolation and characterization of Flexilinea flocculi gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous, anaerobic bacterium belonging to the class Anaerolineae in the phylum Chloroflexi. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:988-996.

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