Name DOI
10.1601/nm.8324
Name
 Lewin 1970 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hosoya and Yokota 2007
Name Status
Validly Published
Current Authority
Lewin 1970 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hosoya and Yokota 2007
Preferred Name
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Nomenclatural Type
(designated species)
 Lewin 1970 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hosoya and Yokota 2007
Taxonomy
Proper Form
Flexithrix Lewin 1970 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hosoya and Yokota 2007
Nomenclatural History
The genus Flexithrix was originally proposed by Lewin 1970. This name appeared on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980. Lewin and Leadbetter published an emended description of this genus in 1974. A subsequent emendation was proposed by Hosoya and Yokota in 2007.
Citation
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Name Abstract for Flexithrix Lewin 1970 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hosoya and Yokota 2007.. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.8324.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on August 24, 2009.

References

  1. Lewin RA, Leadbetter ER. Genus IV. Flexithrix Lewin 1970, 513. In: Buchanan RE, Gibbons NE (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1974, p. 109-109.
  2. Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.
  3. Hosoya S, Yokota A. Reclassification of Flexibacter aggregans (Lewin 1969) Leadbetter 1974 as a later heterotypic synonym of Flexithrix dorotheae Lewin 1970. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2007; 57:1086-1088. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64798-0 [PubMed].
  4. Lewin RA. Flexithrix dorotheae gen. et sp. nov. (Flexibacteriales): and suggestions for reclassifying sheathed bacteria. Can J Microbiol 1970; 16:511-515. [PubMed].