Genus Ornithinimicrobium

Name: Ornithinimicrobium Groth et al. 2001

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Or.ni.thi.ni.mi.cro’bi.um. N.L. fem. n. ornithina, ornithine, an amino acid; from Gr. gen. masc./fem. n. ornithos, bird; N.L. neut. n. microbium, a microbe; from Gr. masc. adj. mikros, small (may keep -o); from Gr. masc. n. bios, life; N.L. neut. n. Ornithinimicrobium, a microbe with ornithine

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): neuter (stem: Ornithinimicrobi-), or-ni-t^hi-ni-mi-KRO-bi-um

Type species: Ornithinimicrobium humiphilum Groth et al. 2001

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Groth I, Schumann P, Weiss N, Schuetze B, Augsten K, Stackebrandt E. Ornithinimicrobium humiphilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel soil actinomycete with L-ornithine in the peptidoglycan. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:81-87. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 51, part 1 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:269.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Fang et al. 2020 Fang XM, Du HJ, Bai JL, He WN, Li J, Wang H, Su J, Liu HY, Zhang YQ, Yu LY. Ornithinimicrobium cerasi sp. nov., isolated from the fruit of Cerasus pseudocerasus and emended description of the genus Ornithinimicrobium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:1691-1697. 🇨🇳 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3583-3587.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Ornithinimicrobiaceae Nouioui et al. 2018. Publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. 🇩🇪
  • 🧕 Zhi et al. (2009) assigned this genus to the family Intrasporangiaceae Rainey et al. 1997. Publication: Zhi XY, Li WJ, Stackebrandt E. An update of the structure and 16S rRNA gene sequence-based definition of higher ranks of the class Actinobacteria, with the proposal of two new suborders and four new families and emended descriptions of the existing higher taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:589-608. 🇨🇳
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Ornithimicrobium"; "Ornithinimicro"; "Ornithinobacterium".
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Fang 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 BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 13; JCM: 8; CGMCC: 5; DSM: 4; GDMCC: 4; NBRC: 2; CPCC: 2; EGI: 1; CCM: 1; MTCC: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 18
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 18
Total number of child taxa: 21

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Ornithinimicrobium algicola Ramaprasad et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium avium Lee et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium carbonis Yang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium cavernae Zhang et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium cerasi Fang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium ciconiae Lee et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Ornithinimicrobium cryptoxanthini" Huang et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
    "Ornithinimicrobium faecis" Huang et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
    Ornithinimicrobium flavum Fang et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium humiphilum Groth et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium jinqii Liu et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium kibberense Mayilraj et al. 2006	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium laminariae Cao et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium murale Kämpfer et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium panacihumi Huo et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium pekingense Liu et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium pratense Guo et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium pulveris Yang et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Ornithinimicrobium sediminis Gao et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Ornithinimicrobium sufpigmenti" Huang et al. 2023	not validly published	preferred name
    Ornithinimicrobium tianjinense Liu et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Ornithinimicrobiaceae Nouioui et al. 2018

Assigned by: Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. 🇩🇪

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