Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8296

Name

Flectobacillus Larkin et al. 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ramaprasad et al. 2015

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Cytophagaceae Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019

Members

species	Flectobacillus major (Gromov 1963) Larkin et al. 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hahnke et al. 2016
species	Flectobacillus fontis Chen et al. 2017
species	Flectobacillus glomeratus McGuire et al. 1988
species	Flectobacillus lacus Hwang and Cho 2006
species	Flectobacillus marinus (Raj 1976) Borrall and Larkin 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Flectobacillus pallidus Sheu et al. 2017
species	Flectobacillus rhizosphaerae Ramaprasad et al. 2015
species	Flectobacillus roseus Sheu et al. 2009

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Bacteroidota corrig. Krieg et al. 2021
class Cytophagia Nakagawa 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
order Cytophagales Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019
family Cytophagaceae Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019
genus Flectobacillus Larkin et al. 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ramaprasad et al. 2015

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Flectobacillus Larkin et al. 1977 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Ramaprasad et al. 2015. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8296.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8296.xml

Larkin and Williams 1978 originally placed this genus in Spirosomaceae. This was later transferred to Cytophagaceae by Ludwig et al. 2011. García-López et al. 2019 later reversed this.


This information was last reviewed on March 16, 2020.

References

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Hwang CY, Cho BC. Flectobacillus lacus sp. nov., isolated from a highly eutrophic pond in Korea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1197-1201. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64071-0 [PubMed].
Borrall R, Larkin JM. Flectobacillus marinus (Raj) comb. nov., a marine bacterium previously assigned to Microcyclus. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1978; 28:341-343. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-28-3-341.
Chen W-M, Lin K-R, Young C-C, Sheu S-Y. Flectobacillus fontis sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:336-342. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001627 [PubMed].
García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front. Microbio. 2019; 10:2083-2083. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02083 [PubMed].
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Larkin JM, Williams PM, Taylor R. Taxonomy of the genus Microcyclus Ørskov 1928. Reintroduction and emendation of the genus Spirosoma Migula 1894 and proposal of a new genus, Flectobacillus. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1977; 27:147-156. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-27-2-147.
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Ramaprasad EVV, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV. Flectobacillus rhizosphaerae sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere soil of Oryza sativa (L.), and emended description of the genus Flectobacillus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:3451-3456. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000432 [PubMed].
Sheu S-Y, Chiu TF, Cho N-T, Chou J-H, Sheu D-S, Arun AB, Young C-C, Chen CA, Wang J-T, Chen W-M. Flectobacillus roseus sp. nov., isolated from freshwater in Taiwan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:2546-2551. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.009738-0 [PubMed].