Species Polaribacter glomeratus

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

Category, proposed as: species, comb. nov.

Basonym: Flectobacillus glomeratus McGuire et al. 1988

Etymology: glo.me.ra’tus. L. masc. part. adj. glomeratus, formed into a ball, glomerated; from L. inf. v. glomerare, to form into ball, glomerate

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: po-la-ri-BAK-ter glo-me-RA-tus, 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

Valid publication: Gosink JJ, Woese CR, Staley JT. Polaribacter gen. nov., with three new species, P. irgensii sp. nov., P. franzmannii sp. nov. and P. filamentus sp. nov., gas vacuolate polar marine bacteria of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides group and reclassification of 'Flectobacillus glomeratus' as Polaribacter glomeratus comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:223-235. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 48, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:629.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Flectobacillus glomeratus McGuire et al. 1988	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 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. 🇩🇪 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 😷 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 Germany has been imported on 2026-08-13. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — 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 1 time in PubMed until 2026-06-11.

Parent taxon: Polaribacter Gosink et al. 1998

Assigned by: Gosink JJ, Woese CR, Staley JT. Polaribacter gen. nov., with three new species, P. irgensii sp. nov., P. franzmannii sp. nov. and P. filamentus sp. nov., gas vacuolate polar marine bacteria of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides group and reclassification of 'Flectobacillus glomeratus' as Polaribacter glomeratus comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:223-235. 🇺🇸

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