Name: Spongiibacterium flavum Yoon and Oh 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fla’vum. L. neut. adj. flavum, yellow, the colour of colonies or pigment

Gender: neuter

Type strain: A11; DSM 22638; KCTC 22665

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16S rRNA gene: FJ348473 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Yoon BJ, Oh DC. Spongiibacterium flavum gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the marine sponge Halichondria oshoro, and emended descriptions of the genera Croceitalea and Flagellimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1158-1164.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1723-1724.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Flagellimonas flava (Yoon and Oh 2012) Choi et al. 2018

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Allomuricauda flava (Yoon and Oh 2012) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name
    Flagellimonas flava (Yoon and Oh 2012) Choi et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Muricauda flava (Yoon and Oh 2012) García-López et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Spongiibacterium Yoon and Oh 2012. Publication: Yoon BJ, Oh DC. Spongiibacterium flavum gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the marine sponge Halichondria oshoro, and emended descriptions of the genera Croceitalea and Flagellimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1158-1164.
  • ❗ Spongiibacterium flavum 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 Spongiibacterium.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 The genome of the type strain was sequenced as part of the GEBA (Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea) project. Publication: 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.

Parent taxon: Spongiibacterium Yoon and Oh 2012

Assigned by: Yoon BJ, Oh DC. Spongiibacterium flavum gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the marine sponge Halichondria oshoro, and emended descriptions of the genera Croceitalea and Flagellimonas. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1158-1164.

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