Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.8182

Name

Psychroflexus Bowman et al. 1999

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	Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992 emend. García-López et al. 2019

Members

species	Psychroflexus torquis Bowman et al. 1999 emend. Hahnke et al. 2016
species	Psychroflexus aestuariivivens Park et al. 2016
species	Psychroflexus aurantiacus Wu et al. 2020
species	Psychroflexus gondwanensis (Dobson et al. 1993) Bowman et al. 1999 emend. Hahnke et al. 2016
species	Psychroflexus halocasei Seiler et al. 2012
species	Psychroflexus lacisalsi Zhang et al. 2010
species	Psychroflexus maritimus Zhong et al. 2022
species	Psychroflexus planctonicus Zhong et al. 2015
species	Psychroflexus salarius Chun et al. 2014
species	Psychroflexus salinarum Yoon et al. 2009
species	Psychroflexus saliphilus Jin et al. 2016
species	Psychroflexus salis Zhong et al. 2015
species	Psychroflexus sediminis Chen et al. 2009 emend. García-López et al. 2019
species	Psychroflexus tropicus Donachie et al. 2004 emend. Hahnke et al. 2016

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 Flavobacteriia (Cavalier-Smith 1998) Bernardet 2012
order Flavobacteriales Bernardet 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
family Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992 emend. García-López et al. 2019
genus Psychroflexus Bowman et al. 1999

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 Psychroflexus Bowman et al. 1999. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.8182.

Source File

10.1601/tx.8182.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 22, 2022.

References

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Park S, Jung Y-T, Park J-M, Kim S-G, Yoon J-H. Psychroflexus aestuariivivens sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:2146-2151. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001000 [PubMed].
Chun J, Kang JY, Jahng KY. Psychroflexus salarius sp. nov., isolated from Gomso salt pan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3467-3472. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.065219-0 [PubMed].
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