Genus Christiangramia

Name: Christiangramia Deshmukh and Oren 2023

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Chris.ti.an.gra’mi.a. N.L. fem. n. Christiangramia, named in honour of the famous Danish pharmacologist and pathologist, Hans Christian Gram (1853-1938), who proposed the differentiating staining of bacteria

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Christiangrami-), k^hris-ti-an-GRA-mi-a

Type species: Christiangramia echinicola (Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005) Deshmukh and Oren 2023

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Deshmukh UB, Oren A. Proposal of Christiangramia gen. nov., Neomelitea gen. nov. and Nicoliella gen. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic generic names Gramella Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005, Melitea Urios et al. 2008 and Nicolia Oliphant et al. 2022, respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5806. 🇮🇱

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 73, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5937.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Gramella Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Notes:
- 🚋 The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Gramella Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005. Publication: Nedashkovskaya OI, Kim SB, Lysenko AM, Frolova GM, Mikhailov VV, Bae KS, Lee DH, Kim IS. Gramella echinicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel halophilic bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:391-394. 🇷🇺
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Cchristiangramia".
- 🧔 This taxon was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Bowman JP, Hugo C, Nicholson A, Hahnke R, Lau EF, Holmes B, Sutcliffe I. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes: Subcommittee on the taxonomy of aerobic Bacteroidota. Minutes of the online meeting 25 April 2023. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6144. 🇦🇺
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Chen et al. (2026), Hameed et al. (2014), Park et al. (2020). 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 phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.04337 (N = 5).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 13; JCM: 9; NBRC: 9; MCCC: 6; DSM: 4; KACC: 4; LMG: 3; BCRC: 2; CGMCC: 2; KMM: 2.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 23
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 23
Total number of child taxa: 23

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Christiangramia aestuarii (Jeong et al. 2013) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia aestuariivivens (Park et al. 2015) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia antarctica (Li et al. 2018) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia aquimixticola (Park et al. 2015) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia bathymodioli (Liu et al. 2020) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia crocea (Zhang et al. 2023) Goo and Li 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia echinicola (Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia flava (Liu et al. 2014) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia forsetii (Panschin et al. 2017) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia fulva (Hwang et al. 2020) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia gaetbulicola (Cho et al. 2011) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia lutea (Yoon et al. 2015) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia marina (Nedashkovskaya et al. 2010) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia oceani (Hameed et al. 2014) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia oceanisediminis (Yang et al. 2023) Goo and Li 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia planctonica (Shahina et al. 2014) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia portivictoriae (Lau et al. 2005) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia qingdaonensis Chen et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia sabulilitoris (Park et al. 2020) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia salexigens (Shin et al. 2018) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia sediminicola Wang et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia sediminilitoris (Park et al. 2016) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Christiangramia sediminis (Niu et al. 2022) Deshmukh and Oren 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Flavobacteriaceae Reichenbach 1992

Assigned by: Deshmukh UB, Oren A. Proposal of Christiangramia gen. nov., Neomelitea gen. nov. and Nicoliella gen. nov. as replacement names for the illegitimate prokaryotic generic names Gramella Nedashkovskaya et al. 2005, Melitea Urios et al. 2008 and Nicolia Oliphant et al. 2022, respectively. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5806. 🇮🇱

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