Taxa covered by the ICSP Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Flavobacterium- and Cytophaga-like bacteria - July 2005

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Prepared by J.-F. Bernardet. Updated 21 July 2005.

Notes

(i) In the Taxonomic Outline, by Garrity et al., on the web site of the new (2nd) edition of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, the families Cytophagaceae and Spirosomaceae are deleted. Some of the genera they previously comprised and some unattributed genera are moved to the new families 'Blattabacteriaceae', 'Saprospiraceae', 'Flexibacteraceae', 'Flammeovirgaceae' and 'Crenotrichaceae'.

(ii) Although the family Bacteroidaceae Pribram 1933 (genera Bacteroides, Algoriphagus, Anaerophaga, Marinilabilia, Porphyromonas, Prevotella and Rikenella) also belongs to the phylum Flavobacterium–Cytophaga–Bacteroides, it falls within the competence of the Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Gram-negative anaerobic rods.

(iii) Several organisms are currently misclassified in the genera Cytophaga, Flavobacterium and Flexibacter.

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