Name: Sphingomicrobium Kämpfer et al. 2012

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Sphin.go.mi.cro’bi.um. N.L. neut. n. sphingosinum, sphingosine; from Gr. fem. n. sphinx (gen. sphingos), of sphinx; from Chem. fem. suff. -ine; N.L. pref. sphingo-, pertaining to sphingosine (in compound words condensed from sphingosinum); N.L. neut. n. microbium, microbe; N.L. neut. n. Sphingomicrobium, a sphingosine-containing microbe

Gender, pronunciation: neuter (stem: Sphingomicrobi-), sp^hin-go-mi-KRO-bi-um

Type species: Sphingomicrobium lutaoense Kämpfer et al. 2012

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kampfer P, Arun AB, Young CC, Busse HJ, Kassmannhuber J, Rossello-Mora R, Geueke B, Rekha PD, Chen WM. Sphingomicrobium lutaoense gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a coastal hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1326-1330. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2048-2049.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Shahina et al. 2013 Shahina M, Hameed A, Lin SY, Hsu YH, Liu YC, Huang YM, Lin JC, Young CC. Sphingomicrobium marinum sp. nov. and Sphingomicrobium flavum sp. nov., isolated from surface seawater, and emended description of the genus Sphingomicrobium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2013; 63:4469-4476. 🇹🇼 Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 63, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:697-699.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family Sphingomicrobiaceae Wang et al. 2025. Publication: Wang Y, You H, Kong YH, Sun C, Wu LH, Kim SG, Lee JS, Xu L, Xu XW. Genomic-based taxonomic classification of the order Sphingomonadales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6769. 🇨🇳
  • 🧕 Wang et al. (2025) assigned this genus to the family Sphingomicrobiaceae Wang et al. 2025. Publication: Wang Y, You H, Kong YH, Sun C, Wu LH, Kim SG, Lee JS, Xu L, Xu XW. Genomic-based taxonomic classification of the order Sphingomonadales. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6769. 🇨🇳
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Sphingomicro"; "Splingomicrobium".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Shahina et al. (2013). 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: JCM: 6; KCTC: 5; BCRC: 3; MCCC: 3; GDMCC: 2; NBRC: 2; B: 1; CGMCC: 1; DSM: 1; CCM: 1.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 10
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 10
Total number of child taxa: 11

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Sphingomicrobium aestuariivivum Park et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sphingomicrobium aquimarinum Zhang et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sphingomicrobium arenosum Zhang et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sphingomicrobium astaxanthinifaciens Shahina et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Sphingomicrobium clamense" Li et al. 2024	not validly published	preferred name
    Sphingomicrobium flavum Shahina et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sphingomicrobium lutaoense Kämpfer et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sphingomicrobium marinum Shahina et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sphingomicrobium maritimum Zhang et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sphingomicrobium nitratireducens You et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Sphingomicrobium sediminis Kim et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Sphingomonadaceae Kosako et al. 2000

Assigned by: Kampfer P, Arun AB, Young CC, Busse HJ, Kassmannhuber J, Rossello-Mora R, Geueke B, Rekha PD, Chen WM. Sphingomicrobium lutaoense gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a coastal hot spring. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1326-1330. 🇩🇪

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