- Volume 29, Issue 4, 1979

It is requested that the Judicial Commission issue an Opinion rejecting the name Flavobacterium aquatile (Frankland and Frankland) Bergey et al. 1923 as a nomen dubium. Because this species is the type species of the genus Flavobacterium, the Judicial Commission is also requested to issue an Opinion designating Flavobacterium breve (Lustig) Bergey et al. 1923 as the new type species of Flavobacterium. The description of the genus Flavobacterium Bergey et al. 1923 is also herein emended. The proposed taxonomic or nomenclatural status of all known previously described species of the genus Flavobacterium is indicated in appendexes to this paper.

The following strains are herein proposed as the neotype strains of their respective species: Bacteroides capillosus ATCC 29799, B. coagulans ATCC 29798, B. pneumosintes ATCC 33048, B. furcosus ATCC 25662, B. putredinis ATCC 29800, B. nodosus ATCC 25549, and B. praeacutus ATCC 25539.