Name: Brumimicrobium mesophilum Yang et al. 2013

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: me.so’phi.lum. Gr. masc. adj. mesos, middle, in the middle; N.L. adj. philus -a -um, friend to, loving; from Gr. adj. philos -ê -on, loving; N.L. neut. adj. mesophilum, middle temperature-loving, mesophilic

Gender: neuter

Type strain: JCM 14063; KCCM 42331; YH207

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: DQ660382 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: 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.

IJSEM list: 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.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.
  • 🧍 The phylogenetic position of this species was determined in a genome-scale analysis by García-López et al. (2019). Publication: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

Parent taxon: Brumimicrobium Bowman et al. 2003

Assigned by: 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.

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Record number: 790599