Name: Sporocytophaga myxococcoides (Krzemieniewska 1933) Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Cytophaga myxococcoides" Krzemieniewska 1933

Etymology: N.L. masc. n. Myxococcus, genus name of a bacterium; L. adj. suff. -oides, resembling, similar; from Gr. neut. adj. suff. -eides, resembling, similar; from Gr. neut. n. eîdos, that which is seen, form, shape, figure; N.L. adj. myxococcoides, resembling Myxococcus

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC 10010; DSM 11118; LMG 8393

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AJ310654 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Stanier RY. Studies on the Cytophagas. J Bacteriol 1940; 40:619-635.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Cytophaga myxococcoides" Krzemieniewska 1933	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists

• 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:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Sporocytophaga Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Stanier RY. Studies on the Cytophagas. J Bacteriol 1940; 40:619-635.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — 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 27 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Sporocytophaga Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Stanier RY. Studies on the Cytophagas. J Bacteriol 1940; 40:619-635.

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Record number: 781118