Name: Psychroflexus tropicus Donachie et al. 2004

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: trop’ic.us. L. masc. adj. tropicus, tropical, of or pertaining to the tropic(s) or solstice, relating to its isolation from a subtropical lake

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC BAA-734; DSM 15496; LA1

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF513434 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Donachie SP, Bowman JP, Alam M. Psychroflexus tropicus sp. nov., an obligately halophilic Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides group bacterium from an Hawaiian hypersaline lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:935-940.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1427-1428.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • Hahnke et al. 2016 Hahnke RL, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Garcia-Lopez M, Mukherjee S, Huntemann M, Ivanova NN, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Klenk HP, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:2003. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 26. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2081-2086.
    Notes:
    • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project.

• Notes:
  • 😷 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.

Parent taxon: Psychroflexus Bowman et al. 1999

Assigned by: Donachie SP, Bowman JP, Alam M. Psychroflexus tropicus sp. nov., an obligately halophilic Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides group bacterium from an Hawaiian hypersaline lake. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:935-940.

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