Dr Paul Bowser took us for much of today’s Aquavet lessons.
The many names for the one bacteria we now know as Flavobacterium columnare (Flavo = yellow, Column = rod shaped):
- 1. Bacterium columnaris –>
- 2. Chondrococcus columnaris (stupid name because they’re not coccoid at all) –>
- 3. Myxobacter columnaris –>
- 4. Cytophaga columnaris (Cyto = cell + Phaga = eating = cell-eating) –>
- 5. Flexibacter columnaris (because they flex as they move) –>
- 6. Flavobacteria columnaris –>
- 7. Flavobacter columnare.
As a measure of the wealth of experience he has in the field of aquatic animal health, he says he has been doing this since this bacteria had its second name. Even the great authors on the Wikipedia page on this bacteria doesn’t go that far back.
