Scientific name Flavobacterium Phylum Bacteroidetes | Higher classification Flavobacteriaceae Rank Genus | |
Similar Bacteria, Cytophaga, Alcaligenes, Aeromonas, Flavobacteriaceae | ||
columnaris bacteria flavobacterium columnare
Flavobacterium is a genus of Gram-negative, nonmotile and motile, rod-shaped bacteria that consists of 130 recognized species, as well as three newly proposed species (F. gondwanense, F. salegens, and F. scophthalmum). Flavobacteria are found in soil and fresh water in a variety of environments. Several species are known to cause disease in freshwater fish.
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Flavobacterium psychrophilum causes the bacterial cold water disease on salmonids and the rainbow trout fry disease on rainbow trout. Flavobacterium columnare causes the cotton-wool disease on freshwater fishes. F. branchiophilum causes the bacterial gill disease on trout.
Nylon-eating bacteria are a strain of Flavobacterium that is capable of digesting certain byproducts of nylon 6 manufacture.
Flavobacterium columnare
