FLAVOBACTERIUM AQUATILE (FRANKLAND AND FRANKLAND) BERGEY ET AL., TYPE SPECIES OF THE GENUS FLAVOBACTERIUM

Abstract

land and Frankland) Bergey et al. was isolated and described as BaciUus aquatiis (Frankland and Frankland, 1889). The species was slected by Bergey et al. (1923) as the type for the genus Flavoberium. With the exception of studies by Gary (1950) the genus appears to have rceived very little systematic investigation. If the type concept of taxonomy is-followed, then the type species should play an. important role in any arrangement of a genus. The studies which. were made by Gary, and those which are reported here, make it apparent-that the cultures which are in circulation as F. aquatile cannot be accepted as such. These cultures, together with ofthers considered as possble representatives of the type