Genus Brumimicrobium

Name: Brumimicrobium Bowman et al. 2003

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Bru.mi.mi.cro’bi.um. L. fem. n. bruma, winter; N.L. neut. n. microbium, microbe; N.L. neut. n. Brumimicrobium, winter microbe

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Brumimicrobi-), bru-mi-mi-KRO-bi-um

Type species: Brumimicrobium glaciale Bowman et al. 2003

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Bowman JP, Nichols CM, Gibson JA. Algoriphagus ratkowskyi gen. nov., sp. nov., Brumimicrobium glaciale gen. nov., sp. nov., Cryomorpha ignava gen. nov., sp. nov. and Crocinitomix catalasitica gen. nov., sp. nov., novel flavobacteria isolated from various polar habitats. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1343-1355. 🇦🇺

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:3-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Yang et al. 2013 Yang SH, Seo HS, Oh HM, Kim SJ, Lee JH, Kwon KK. Brumimicrobium mesophilum sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat sediment, and emended descriptions of the genus Brumimicrobium and Brumimicrobium glaciale. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1105-1110. 🇰🇷 Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:1939-1941.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Bowman et al. (2003) assigned this genus to the family Cryomorphaceae Bowman et al. 2003. Publication: Bowman JP, Nichols CM, Gibson JA. Algoriphagus ratkowskyi gen. nov., sp. nov., Brumimicrobium glaciale gen. nov., sp. nov., Cryomorpha ignava gen. nov., sp. nov. and Crocinitomix catalasitica gen. nov., sp. nov., novel flavobacteria isolated from various polar habitats. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1343-1355. 🇦🇺
  • 🧕 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this genus to the family Cryomorphaceae Bowman et al. 2003. Publication: Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Euzéby J, Whitman WB. Phylum XIV. Bacteroidetes phyl. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 25. 🇺🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Brumicrobium".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Zhang et al. (2023). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 3; MCCC: 3; CIP: 1; LMG: 1; KCCM: 1; ACAM: 1; JCM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Brumimicrobium aurantiacum Zhang et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Brumimicrobium glaciale Bowman et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Brumimicrobium mesophilum Yang et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Brumimicrobium oceani Zhang et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Brumimicrobium salinarum Luo et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Crocinitomicaceae Munoz et al. 2016

Assigned by: Munoz R, Rossello-Mora R, Amann R. Revised phylogeny of Bacteroidetes and proposal of sixteen new taxa and two new combinations including Rhodothermaeota phyl. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2016; 39:281-296. 🇪🇸

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