Name: Fimbriiglobus ruber Kulichevskaya et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ru’ber. L. masc. adj. ruber, red coloured, referring to the pigmentation of the bacterium

Gender: masculine

Type strain: LMG 29572; SP 5; VKM B-3045

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KX369544 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kulichevskaya IS, Ivanova AA, Baulina OI, Rijpstra WI, Sinninghe Damste JS, Dedysh SN. Fimbriiglobus ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gemmata-like planctomycete from Sphagnum peat bog and the proposal of Gemmataceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:218-224.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 2 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1099-1101.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Emendations:
  • García-López et al. 2019 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. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Fimbriiglobus Kulichevskaya et al. 2017. Publication: Kulichevskaya IS, Ivanova AA, Baulina OI, Rijpstra WI, Sinninghe Damste JS, Dedysh SN. Fimbriiglobus ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gemmata-like planctomycete from Sphagnum peat bog and the proposal of Gemmataceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:218-224.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-28.

Parent taxon: Fimbriiglobus Kulichevskaya et al. 2017

Assigned by: Kulichevskaya IS, Ivanova AA, Baulina OI, Rijpstra WI, Sinninghe Damste JS, Dedysh SN. Fimbriiglobus ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gemmata-like planctomycete from Sphagnum peat bog and the proposal of Gemmataceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:218-224.

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